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Trump Border Wall Not Designed To Contain Illegal Immigration, Serves ‘Symbolic’ Purpose
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 03rd January, 2019) The border wall President Donald Trump shut the US Federal government down over is not part of any coordinated strategy to limit illegal immigration but is a potent emotional symbol for his political base, analysts told Sputnik.
The US federal government has been shut down for eleven days because Democrats have refused Trump’s demand to include $5.6 billion in funding in next year’s budget to build a wall on the southern border. On Wednesday, talks between Trump and Democratic lawmakers at the White House collapsed on the eve of the new US Congress convening. After the meeting, House Democrats vowed to submit legislation on Thursday that includes only $1.3 billion in border security funding, far short of Trump’s target.
Currently there is nearly 600 miles worth of barrier, primarily consisting of 16-foot high fencing, along the 1,900-mile US-Mexico border. Trump wants to erect steel and/or concrete walls over 30 feet tall on more than 200 miles of the border that would include new and replacement barriers.
“The problem is that this wall is not and never was part of a well thought organic border security plan aimed at preventing or at least containing illegal immigration,” Global Policy Institute President Professor Paolo von Schirach said on Wednesday. “For Trump and his core supporters, the Mexico border wall was and is a symbol of America First in action.”
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