SCHUMER. Finally, Mr. President, a word on the President's latest
idea for a border wall with Mexico. After the idea of a border wall was
roundly rejected in the last omnibus by Members of both parties and
after no Republican from a border State area would support the border
wall, the President just cannot seem to let it go. Yesterday, it was
reported that he actually pitched the idea of a 40- or 50-foot-tall
border wall with solar panels. Never mind that he still has not come up
with a plan on how to build the wall, where to build it--on our side or
the Rio Grande side--or how to get the land on the border from the
private citizens who own it. Never mind that a border wall would be
incredibly expensive and ineffective in actually preventing illegal
border crossings. Never mind that Mexico still wouldn't be paying for
the border wall or its solar panels. The President is still pushing this medieval proposal--now with an
absurd twist. Just like painting stripes on a pony doesn't make a
zebra, solar panels on a wall no one wants doesn't make it any more
attractive.
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