Border Boondoggle
Apr 15, 2020
3 minutes
By Ian Gordon and Camille Squires
more than ever!” President Trump tweeted on March 10—one day before the WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic—just another of his more than 400 tweets about his dream of building a wall along the US-Mexico border. According to a analysis of government contracts, the Trump administration has so far doled out $6.5 billion to build about 470 miles of wall—260 miles of replacement fencing and 210 miles of new construction. In Trumpian fashion, the project
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