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Friday, January 6, 2017

GOPDD: President-Elect Donald Trump Takes First Steps to ‘Build the Wall’

Jan 5, 2017 by William Smith

Donald Trump has officially taken the first step in his promise to “build the wall.” According to Reuters, the Trump transition team presented a “wide-ranging request for documents and analysis” to the Department of Homeland Security in early December “to assess all assets available for border wall and barrier construction.”
Reuters learned about the requests via an internal agency memo regarding a Dec. 5 meeting between Trump’s transition team and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. In the meeting, Trump’s team asked for information about the department’s capacity to expand immigrant detention and its aerial surveillance program that President Obama significantly “downsized.” The team also asked for details about Obama’s executive orders on immigration and “whether federal workers have altered biographic information kept by the department about immigrants out of concern for their civil liberties.”