ONLY ON ABC-7: Hudspeth County Sheriff advocates for border wall
Hudspeth County has seven miles of fencing along the southern border with Mexico.
Sheriff Arvin West said his county needs a border wall, and is angry at democrats for not giving in on President Donald Trump’s demands for funding.
“What are y’all thinking? Let’s secure our country. I don’t care who comes in this country, as long as they come in legally,” West said.
Hudspeth County is El Paso County’s neighbor to the East. West argued that the fencing in El Paso is effective.
“It’s because of the wall that’s in El Paso County that we feel the brunt of that in Hudspeth County, and I’m sure they feel the same way in New Mexico,” West said.
Last week El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar gave a speech in Congress in which she called the President’s demand for $5.7 Billion in border wall funding a “colossal waste.”
“You’ve got El Paso politicians, they say ‘you know, El Paso’s the second-safest city, in the nation and we don’t need a wall,'” West said. “They’re right. El Paso doesn’t need a wall, it doesn’t need a fence because it’s already there, and it’s been existing for years.”
The United States is in the midst of the longest government shutdown in history. The stalemate in Congress is the result of the controversial border wall.
