Washington • Pushing for Congress to approve money for a U.S.-Mexican border wall, the White House is now arguing that it’s for the kids.
“It’s very hard to do human trafficking through ports of entry because you have people standing there saying, ‘Hey what’s going on in the back seat, what’s going on in the trunk,’” President Donald Trump said Friday. “They check these things. So they come into areas where you don’t have the barriers.”
Sitting to the right of the president in the Cabinet Room was Utahn Timothy Ballard, who heads Operation Underground Railroad and asserted in a Fox News opinion piece earlier this week that a wall along the southern border would help halt the trafficking of underage victims to the United States.