Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly said on Wednesday that President Trump’s signature wall on the border with Mexico is unlikely to stretch from “sea to shining sea.”
“It’s unlikely that we will build wall or a physical barrier from sea to shining sea,” Kelly said during testimony to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the Dallas News reported.
Kelly said that many Customs and Border Protection officers have pointed to specific zones that need improvement and that the wall will not be built “where it doesn’t make sense.”
{mosads}”We’re not going to build a wall where it doesn’t make sense, but we’re going to do something across the southwest border,” Kelly said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) blasted the Trump administration during the hearing, saying that every lawmaker knows that building a wall that stretches the length of the border is “not going to happen.”