BORDER/MEXICO/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once called President Donald Trump’s views on a border wall and immigration ‘simplistic’ and ‘absurd and almost childish.’ A physical barrier would not stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the Mexican border and ranchers at the border say they don’t need a fence, Mulvaney said in a 2015 interview uncovered by KFile. As Trump’s man in charge at the White House, however, Mulvaney would be tasked with leading the administration’s push to build a wall along the US-Mexico border…Mulvaney emphasized that the best way to protect the border is to enforce current law with more manpower and improved technology — a policy the Trump White House is also pursuing.”
–Andrew Kaczynski, “Mick Mulvaney in 2015: Trump’s views on border wall ‘simplistic,’ ‘absurd and almost childish’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 21, 2018 8:34 pm