New York Post Editorial: El Paso is proof Trump’s border wall can work

New York Post writer Paul Sperry wants Americans to ask El Pasoans about the benefits of the border fence built under the Bush Administration.

“A two-story corrugated metal fence first erected under the Bush administration – already has dramatically curtailed both illegal border crossings and crime in Texas’ sixth-largest city, which borders the high-crime Mexican city of Juarez,” Sperry wrote in an opinion piece for the Post.

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The opinion piece cites Homeland Security data stating the number of deportable illegal immigrants located by the US Border Patrol plummeted by more than 89 percent over a five-year period.

“When the project first started in 2006, illegal crossings totaled 122,261, but by 2010, when the 131-mile fence was completed from one end of El Paso out into the New Mexico desert, immigrant crossings shrank to just 12,251,” the editorial states.