9/19/2018

AFRICA/IMMIGRATION/SPAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister says. Josep Borrell, also a former President of the European Parliament, disagreed with the strategy. The comments came during a visit Mr Borrell made to the US at the end of June. Mr Trump’s pledge to build a wall between the US and Mexico was one of his best-known election promises. Mr Borrell recounted his conversation with the US president at a lunch event in Madrid this week, Spain’s foreign ministry confirmed to the BBC. ‘The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than our border with Mexico,’ Mr Borrell quoted Mr Trump as saying. The US-Mexico border is 1,954 miles (3,145 km) long. The Sahara desert stretches for 3,000 miles.”

BBC Staff, “Trump urged Spain to ‘build a wall’ across Sahara, says minister,” BBC.com, September 19, 2018