This is the beginning of the southern border wall. This was from -- fiscal '17 budget. This is a replacement project, but if you will, look at the border wall, this new wall is roughly two or three times taller than the wall that was here today. It represents a kind of new border wall measures that we will be implementing.
Mike Pence: “This is the beginning of the southern border wall. This was from -- fiscal '17 budget. This is a replacement project…”
On the recordApril 29, 2018
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Mike Pence describes the current border wall project and its significance.
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