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El Paso bristles at Trump'''s claim that wall made city safe
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — People walking over the Paso del Norte Bridge linking this West Texas border city to Mexico can watch President Donald Trump’s border wall getting bigger in real time.
Workers in fluorescent smocks can be seen digging trenches, pouring concrete and erecting rust-colored slabs of 18-foot-high metal to replace layers of barbed wire-topped fencing along the mud-colored Rio Grande, which is usually little more than a trickle.
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People walking across the bridge between El Paso & Mexico point at the mess and say 'Trump.'
'Trump said barriers turned El Paso from one of the nation’s most dangerous cities to one of its safest, but that’s not true. El Paso, population around 800,000, had a murder rate less than half the national average in 2005, a year before the most recent expansion of its border fence.' Trump is lying about the effect the wall has had on violent crime in El Paso & most in the area see right through his desperate bid to fulfill his major campaign promise to build a wall that Mexico would pay for. That's not going to happen either.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — People walking over the Paso del Norte Bridge linking this West Texas border city to Mexico can watch President Donald Trump’s border wall getting bigger in real time.
Workers in fluorescent smocks can be seen digging trenches, pouring concrete and erecting rust-colored slabs of 18-foot-high metal to replace layers of barbed wire-topped fencing along the mud-colored Rio Grande, which is usually little more than a trickle.
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People walking across the bridge between El Paso & Mexico point at the mess and say 'Trump.'
'Trump said barriers turned El Paso from one of the nation’s most dangerous cities to one of its safest, but that’s not true. El Paso, population around 800,000, had a murder rate less than half the national average in 2005, a year before the most recent expansion of its border fence.' Trump is lying about the effect the wall has had on violent crime in El Paso & most in the area see right through his desperate bid to fulfill his major campaign promise to build a wall that Mexico would pay for. That's not going to happen either.