WASHINGTON (AP) – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico will be painted black to make it hotter and to deter illegal immigration – and she has credited President Trump with the idea.
Called during a visit to a part of the wall in New Mexico, where she also took a roll brush to help with the painting.
She praised the height of the wall and the depth as ways to scare people who wanted to go over the walls. And then said that Homeland Security would try to make the metal hotter.
“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that at the hot temperatures below when something is painted black, it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to paint the entire southern border wall to ensure that we encourage individuals not to get into our country,” said Name.
The American border patrol chef Mike Banks, who attended the event with Name, said that the paint would also help to scare rust.
During Trump's first term, building the wall was a central focus of his hardline immigration policy. During his second term, his massive deportation agenda with arrests in the interior of the country has been the most important focus, but Homeland Security gets around $ 46 billion to complete the wall as part of new financing adopted by the congress this summer.
Call that they built about half a mile barrier every day.
“The border wall will look very different based on the topography and the geography of where it was built,” she said.
She said that in addition to barriers such as the person she visited on Tuesday, the department also works on 'water -based infrastructure'. Long parts of the roughly 2,000 miles border between the US and Mexico are located along the Rio Grande River in Texas.
The Trump administration pushes ahead with the completion of the wall at the same time that the number of people who exceed the limit illegally has plummeted.
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