{"id":1479,"date":"2019-11-29T23:58:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/finance\/2019\/11\/29\/replacement-border-wall-should-be-considered-new-wall-says-acting-secretary-of-homeland-security\/"},"modified":"2019-11-29T23:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T23:58:33","slug":"replacement-border-wall-should-be-considered-new-wall-says-acting-secretary-of-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2019\/11\/29\/replacement-border-wall-should-be-considered-new-wall-says-acting-secretary-of-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement border wall should be considered new wall, says acting secretary of homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote class=\"shareable\" data-share-hover=\"true\" data-share-modprefix=\"mw_pullquote_\" data-share-text=\"Replacement border wall should be considered new wall, says acting secretary of homeland security\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n                  \u2018If you\u2019re going to tear down a shack and build a five-, six-bedroom house, you don\u2019t call that a replacement shack. You call that a new house.\u2019&#13;<\/p>\n<footer>&#13;<br \/>\n                      &#13;<br \/>\n                  <\/footer>\n<p>&#13;\n              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, giving voice to an apparent Trump administration frustration with a lack of public acknowledgment of progress toward delivery on the 2016 campaign\u2019s signature border-wall promise.<\/p>\n<p>Media fact checkers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/california\/statements\/2019\/nov\/23\/nancy-pelosi\/mostly-true-nancy-pelosis-claim-president-trump-ha\/\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have routinely determined that little to no new wall has been constructed<\/a> since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/pentagon-will-divert-36-billion-of-military-funding-to-build-sections-of-trumps-border-wall-2019-09-03\" class=\"icon none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon will divert $3.6 billion of military funding to build sections of Trump\u2019s border wall<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But, speaking with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revrrlewis\/status\/1199317820619853825\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolf was at pains to reframe the debate<\/a>, arguing that, even if the wall portions constructed under Trump demarcate the very same portions of the border between the U.S. and Mexico as pre-existing wall, they represent an upgrade on that existing wall that\u2019s so significant they can only be considered wholly new.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-figure MG\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image-wrap shareable\" data-share-text=\"Replacement border wall should be considered new wall, says acting secretary of homeland security\" data-share-modprefix=\"mw_image_\">\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image MG\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2019\/06\/26\/Photos\/MG\/MW-HM214_border_20190626095819_MG.jpg?uuid=74433052-981a-11e9-b6b0-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                  <!-- Image Credit --><br \/>\n                      <cite>Getty<\/cite><br \/>\n            <!-- Caption inside of wrapper on slideshow media types -->\n              <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                  <!-- Caption outside of wrapper for normal article images -->&#13;<figcaption>A U.S. flag put up by activists who oppose illegal immigration flies near the U.S.-Mexico border fence.<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>Not all viewers of the Fox interview were sold on Wolf\u2019s logic:<\/p>\n<div class=\"inset external-content-inset \" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Narrator: IT\u2019s NOT NEW WALL.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u3010R.G.B.\u2122\u3011???????? ???????? (@serpicoRGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serpicoRGB\/status\/1199321873386881025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"inset external-content-inset \" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5SFZVAV3fT\">pic.twitter.com\/5SFZVAV3fT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 grateful (@lrummel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lrummel\/status\/1199323175823331328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"inset external-content-inset \" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">for the record, no new wall has been built. none. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBZIiEXvYX\">https:\/\/t.co\/RBZIiEXvYX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simon Gloom (@simongloom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simongloom\/status\/1199328777899261952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Read on: <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/trumps-border-wall-prototypes-demolished-in-san-diego-2019-02-27\" class=\"icon none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump border-wall prototypes in San Diego demolished<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; \u2018If you\u2019re going to tear down a shack and build a five-, six-bedroom house, you don\u2019t call that a replacement shack. 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