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crimsongulf » 09 Jan 2019 6:51 pm » wrote:I have no idea why chuckie and Pelosi think that DJT and the Republicans are just going to capitulate to their terms.
Especially since both have voted for border walls in the past.
Face the facts, it isn't about the wall, it is about DJT.

Did Democrats reverse border wall position after Donald Trump was elected?



In his call for a border wall, President Donald Trump said Democrats made a U-turn on immigration after he was elected president.

"Sen. Chuck Schumer, who you will be hearing from later tonight, has repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other Democrats," Trump said Jan. 8 in his prime time address on the border wall.

"They changed their mind only after I was elected president."

That’s a mischaracterization of the barrier that won Democratic support 13 years ago.

Just over half of Democrats in the Senate voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush, including then-Sens. Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.

Most Democrats in the House voted against it, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

The law authorized a fence along about 700 miles of the border between the U.S.-Mexico border.

By 2015, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had constructed 654 miles of fencing, the Government Accountability Office reported.

The fence was different from the wall Trump promised to build on the campaign trail, which he said would be made of "hardened concrete" as tall as "95 stories" with a "very big, very beautiful door."

Trump derided the 2006 fence as too modest during the 2016 campaign — he said it was "not a wall" but a "little fence" that could be scaled with a ladder.