Remarks by President Trump in Press Gaggle After the Commemoration of the 200th Mile of New Border Wall | San Luis, AZ

whitehouse.gov ^ | June 23, 2020 | President Donald J Trump

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San Luis, Arizona

12:46 P.M. MST

Q Can I ask question on the wall: How’s it looking?

THE PRESIDENT: I think it’s great. It’s great. It’s going to be — it’s really foolproof. It’s solid steel. It’s rebar and concrete inside the steel. So we have a very heavy concrete inside the steel. And inside the concrete, we have rebar. So you have everything you could have. It’s what they wanted, and that’s what we did.

Any questions?

Q Mr. President, with all the problems that we’re facing right now, why are you determined to end DACA at this time — with unemployment, with COVID?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re looking at it. We’ll work it out with DACA. I think good things are happening with DACA. They resubmit, but we’ll work it out. And the Democrats have been playing with DACA for years, and they haven’t done anything. I’ll get it done. I’ll get it done. And we’ll — good things will happen for DACA recipients, and pretty soon.

Q Is there a message for DREAMers?

THE PRESIDENT: So, we’re going to — yeah. The message is: Put your chin up. Good things are going to happen. You’ll watch. Okay?

Q Why was the suspension on green cards necessary?

THE PRESIDENT: You have to talk up.

Q Suspension on green cards: Why was it necessary?

THE PRESIDENT: So we want to give jobs to Americans right now. Right now we want jobs going to Americans.

Any other questions? Okay. Thank you all very much.

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12:48 P.M. MST

The White House

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[butlerweave]

How do they Border Wall the Lakes or whatever they’re called ?

[BeauBo]

Lakes are further down the priority list, because the big open area makes detection easier, and gives intercepting officers a long lead time.

When they do get down the list to those lakeside miles ( like around Falcon Lake in Texas), barrier construction would be similar to how they have to do it along the Rio Grande River - with careful attention to flood control consideration.

[bakkentom]

Maybe they will rely on technology and CBP humans. In Texas there is Falcon Lake and Amistad Reservoir. Seems like from the south the wall will eventually end at Amistad. Maybe a barren rock desert up there.

[hsmomx3]

Aside from the wall, I noticed Channel 3 in Phoenix said that there were no people outside of the Dream Church where he gave a speech, and that Trump would have to answer to that as the crowd was much less than what the Trump team expected.

They were pretty sour on his visit and I had to turn it off.