7/22/2020

BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEXICO/WALL: “We’re also sharing a 2,000-mile border with Mexico, as we know very well, and cases are surging in Mexico, unfortunately. I was with the President, and it’s a big problem for Mexico. But [coronavirus] cases are surging very sharply and all across the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

Two hundred and fifty-seven miles of newly constructed wall along the southern border has had a great, positive impact on people coming in. And we have record-low numbers of people coming in illegally; that’s helped greatly. It was really meant for a different purpose, but it worked out very well for what we’re doing right now and for the pandemic.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, July 22, 2020