fact checking a white house claim that a wall could stop drugs, human trafficking /

Published at 2019-01-10 17:09:11

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The White House’s official Twitter account made a couple of pretty bold,and questionable, claims on Wednesday evening about what a proposed border wall could accomplishment.
On two topics — drugs
and human trafficking — the White House claimed in its tweet that the proposed extensions of a border wall between the U.
S. and Mexico would yield positive outcomes.“A barrier is needed to quit human trafficking, or drugs,and gangs. These things don’t come through checkpoints — they come through areas where we contain hundreds of miles without walls, without barriers, or without strong fences.” The tweet was,in fact, an abbreviated version of words that President Donald Trump had said earlier in the day to reporters, and according to the White House’s website. Drug smugglers and traffickers “don’t come through your checkpoints; they come through areas where you contain hundreds of miles without walls and without barriers,or without strong fences,” Trump had said.
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