Trump’s Mexico Border ‘Wall’ Vanishing as GOP Lawmakers Bolt
- Even president-elect’s top allies seek broad security approach
- ‘It does not mean an actual wall,’ says Trump ally in Congress
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The Mexican border wall that Donald Trump promised in the campaign doesn’t really have to be a wall, says Representative Dennis Ross, a member of the president-elect’s transition team.
“The ‘wall’ is a term to help understand it, to describe it,” says Ross, a Florida Republican, adding that it “really means ‘security.’ It could be a fence. It could be open surveillance to prevent people from crossing. It does not mean an actual wall.”