Cracks emerge in wall plan
Rory Carroll in Los Angeles
Wednesday 22 February 2017 06.56 EST
First published on Wednesday 22 February 2017 04.01 EST
Mexico will host its first high-profile Donald Trump envoys this week with at least one consolation: the proposed border wall is itself walled in, for now, by Washington bureaucracy.
Federal agencies are reportedly resisting the idea and Congress is hesitant to fund it, leaving the president fighting a lonely battle to keep his campaign promise.
Instead of a 2,000-mile big, beautiful wall, Trump may emerge from Washingtons policy labyrinth with a fence covering a few hundred miles.
He hasnt made any progress other than to say were going to do it, said Seth Stodder, a former senior homeland security official who focused on border security under the Obama and Bush administrations. Theyre pretty far away. I dont think theyve made much progress ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/donald-trump-envoys-head-to-mexico-cracks-emerge-border-wall-plan