Former President Donald Trump sparred with CNN moderator Kaitlin Collins over the facts related to just how much of the U.S.-Mexico border wall was built during his administration at Wednesday night’s town hall.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, the Trump administration had built 458 miles of new primary and secondary border wall as of January 2021. This included replacing “dilapidated and outdated” sections and locations where “no barriers previously existed.”
These segments of the wall are located in the San Diego, El Centro, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, Del Rio, and Rio Grande Valley sectors, according to a CBP document shared by the Trump campaign following the town hall….