Since this was a national security issue, we just heard that the Pentagon freed up 1.5 billion dollars from the defense budget for the wall. And of all media, the extremely liberal New York Times reported this!He could not start building the wall on his own without funding.
Pentagon Shifts $1.5 Billion to Border Wall From Afghan War Budget and Other Military Projects
And this is over two years after the fact. So the funding was there in spades from the beginning. Trump did not have to beg Congress, and he did not even have to go to Congress, since national security is the President's primary responsibility, and no one can interfere with that (especially liberal judges trying to undermine national security).
All the cash, materiel, and personnel flowing to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Central America (not to mention many other wasteful expenditures within the Pentagon and other departments) would have provided more than enough cash (several billions) to have had that wall already built. All that wasteful expenditure should have been stopped immediately, and the funds diverted to protect the citizens of America (and Canada).
At the same time the Army Corps of Engineers should have been given this responsibility, and a very capable general should have been placed in charge of the whole project, as well as border security. The National Guard should have been posted all along the border, and the project should have been a classified project, with drones watching everything 24/7. Migrant invasion was a declaration of war against the USA, but Mr. Trump did not treat it that way.
The only reason those caravans started coming through Mexico was because the Central Americans and Mexican government saw that Mr. Trump is not really serious. He talked about all kinds of ways and means to stop the migrant invasion, but when push came to shove he did worse than Obama. When a trade deal was made with Mexico by Trump, illegal immigrants coming through Mexico should have been included in the negotiations (at the top of the agenda) as well as massive deportations, along with a very clear warning that the deal would be voided, and the border shut down if Mexico and Central America did not stop their migrant invasion (an act of war without weapons being fired).
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