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Trump touts Fox News report that border wall could pay for itself [View all]
Source: The Hill
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/13/18 12:03 PM EDT
President Trump on Tuesday touted a report from Fox News citing the Center for Immigration Studies that claimed his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexican border could "pay for itself" over a decade.
The report, first reported by The New York Post, claims that $18 billion in funding for a border wall system on the United States's southern border would pay for itself by curbing crime and the flow of undocumented immigrants over the border.
“The wall could pay for itself even if it only modestly reduced illegal crossings and drug smuggling,” CIS's research director Steven Camerota told the Post.
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The report comes as Trump heads to California to look at prototypes of his long-talk about project. Trump is set to see prototypes of the border wall, which have been constructed near the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378125-trump-touts-fox-news-report-that-border-wall-could-pay-for-itself
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