Trump event at wall Obama built highlights his unkept promise

Trump heaped praise on a wall section built by Obama calling it “the Rolls-Royce of walls”.

This section of 20-foot steel slats was built during former president Barack Obama’s administration. Trump added the unfinished extension up the hillside, an engineering challenge that cost at least $35 million a mile. The unused panels of 30-foot beams were procured during the Trump administration and never erected.

“Where you were, that was kind of a joke today,” said John Ladd, a Trump supporter whose ranch extends along the border, explained while driving the dirt road along the barrier, the gapped panels making a flipbook out of the shrubby trees and grass on the other side. “Had to be in front of Trump’s wall, but you went to Montezuma, and that’s Obama’s wall.”

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the barrier next to Thursday’s campaign stop was built during the Obama administration.

In July, illegal border crossings declined to the lowest levels in almost four years, after the Biden administration enacted sweeping measures to limit asylum access.