Trump event at wall Obama built highlights an unkept promise

CORRECTION

A previous version of this article and its headline incorrectly said that the section of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border where former president Donald Trump held an event on Aug. 22 was built during the Obama administration, based on information from the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office and John Ladd, a rancher who owns land along the border near where the event took place. Construction of the segment concluded in December 2008, at the end of the George W. Bush administration, according to a 2012 U.S. Customs and Border Protection report and a former CBP official who oversaw the construction. The article and the headline have been corrected.

MONTEZUMA PASS, Ariz. — A brown ribbon carved a straight gash across a vast, flat desert basin, the only mark of human civilization visible on this wilderness. The partition charged up a steep hill in Montezuma Canyon, then suddenly stopped. Extra pieces lay in piles nearby, rusting monuments to an unfinished campaign promise.

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Source: Isaac Arnsdorf, Marianne LeVine, and Erin Patrick O’Connor, washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/25/trump-event-wall-obama-built-highlights-an-unkept-promise/

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