The 2018 omnibus budget bill proposed by Congress funds only 33 miles of border fencing in Texas, but it provides funding for the Middle Eastern country of Jordan to build fencing along its 287-mile borders with Iraq and Syria. The purpose of that fencing is to keep out terrorists.
Neil Munro, a writer for Breitbart, notes that “The Jordan wall is designed to block the movement of jihadis–but the U.S. border wall is being designed by Republicans and Democrats to leave large holes for migrants to move into U.S. jobs and into Democratic-run cities, where they force down wages earned by blue-collar Americans. . . .”
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