President Donald Trump took his quest to build a wall on the Mexico border to South Texas on Thursday, touring a Border Patrol station and discussing security.
McALLEN, Texas, Jan. 10 (UPI) — President Donald Trump took his quest to build a wall on the Mexico border to South Texas on Thursday, touring a Border Patrol station, viewing the Rio Grande River and attending a roundtable discussion on security.
At the McAllen airport, Trump was greeted by raucous protesters who outnumbered sign-waving supporters by about 4 to 1.
At the local Border Patrol station, agents showed the president examples of contraband that had been seized: an AR-15 rifle, Colt handguns, a plastic bag full of cash, black-taped bricks of heroin and methamphetamine.
Marie Vega, the mother of a Border Patrol agent slain off-duty, told Trump about her loss.
„Every day I was scared I would lose my son,“ Vega said. „Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine my son dying at a family outing. It was supposed to be a peaceful fun fishing afternoon but it didn’t happen that way because we had a criminal illegal alien that killed him.
„We need the wall,“ Vega said. „A parent should not have to bury their child.
