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El Chapo verdict shows why we do need ‘the wall’

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Just hours after negotiators reached a budget deal giving President Trump far less for border security than he’d demanded, jurors came back with guilty verdicts…
Just hours after negotiators reached a budget deal giving President Trump far less for border security than he’d demanded, jurors came back with guilty verdicts against Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for a massive smuggling operation that brought countless tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the United States.
Funny, that. Especially when no one thinks that putting El Chapo away will put a dent in the Sinaloa cartel’s operations, nor its rivals’.
We’ve always seen Trump’s “Build The Wall” talk as a catchy slogan evoking the host of measures needed to at last get serious about border security. It’s his opponents who try to wave it off as magical thinking.

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