3 Facts About the US Border We Didn't Hear in Trump's Speech
January 09, 2019 8:00 PM
Victoria Macchi
WASHINGTON —
Here are three facts about the U.S. southern border with Mexico that Americans didn't hear Tuesday night from U.S. President Donald Trump during his Oval Office address, and why they matter when discussing the issue.
1. The U.S. government admits it doesn't know how effective border fencing and walls are and if they are worth the money.
Parts of the U.S. border with Mexico already have walls and fencing. But two reports in the last two years from the U.S. General Accounting Office say the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - the agency tasked with guarding the border - is just not sure of what the barriers actually accomplish.
"We found that CBP had not accounted for the impact of its investment in border fencing and infrastructure on border security," the GAO wrote in an August 2018 report. A year earlier, the agency determined that CBP "does not have metrics to assess the contributions of border fencing."
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