BORDER/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Former White House chief of staff John Kelly dismissed calls for a full border wall along the US-Mexico border, telling an audience at Duke University, ‘we don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea’…Kelly, who participated in a Q&A with Duke Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Peter Feaver as part of the University’s Phillips Family International Lecture series, cited a physical barrier as necessary to combat the opioid crisis in America but said any border wall would be just ‘a piece of the, I used to say, of the border security system.’ Kelly, who was President Donald Trump’s first Department of Homeland Security secretary, also expressed skepticism that Trump’s emergency declaration regarding the southern border would make it through Congress, telling Feaver, ‘I think the whole national emergency thing right now is going to be wrapped up in the courts, if it even gets through Congress, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get through Congress.’”
–Donald Judd, “Kelly dismisses need for wall along full US-Mexico border,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 7, 2019 8:44 pm