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Speaking exclusively to "Fox News Sunday," a major Democrat sitting on the bipartisan parliamentary committee negotiating a compromise on border security said his party would support "a kind of reinforced barrier" but not a "wall" like that of the president. Trump demanded.
The government currently has funding until February 15 and the committee is working to reach an agreement to avoid the possibility of a further partial closure of the Federal government on the financing of a border wall.
Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar insisted that local officials, instead of the head of the Border Patrol and other federal officers who called for a wall, should make the final decision as to the construction needed.
"First of all, we will not have a wall," Cuellar told animator Chris Wallace, referring to the walls as a "fourteenth-century" solution. "Now we can consider some sort of reinforced hurdle, uh, that's certainly something we can look into. But I have to say that living at the border, you have to leave the border patrol leader local have the say, and let the local communities be involved so that they can come up with, uh, maybe some kind of reinforced barrier – but again, Washington can not dictate what kind of barrier and where place it. "
US Border Leader During Barack Obama's presidency, the patrol declared in January on" Tucker Carlson Tonight "that the walls" work perfectly "and that there is no need for it. has no real argument against building and setting up such a wall. And current Border Patrol Leader Carla Provost told Fox News last year, "We definitely need a wall. Talk to any border agent and he will tell you. "
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The Republican Senator North Dakota, John Hoeven, also spoke to "Fox News Sunday," adopted the language of Cuellar, announcing a kind of funding for a new "barrier" a necessary element of any compromise.
"I think that we can find a solution, but we need to include funding for the obstacles, "Hoeven told Wallace." It must include personnel, technology and funding for a border fence. "
FILE – In this photo of January 9, 2019, a woman walks on the beach next to the border wall topped with razor-sharp barbed wire in Tijuana, Mexico. What began as an online fundraiser to provide President Donald Trump with donations for the construction of his wall south of the border became a new foundation whose members swore to build a wall themselves. The "We'll Build the Wall" campaign has surpassed $ 20 million since its creation in December by Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage. Nearly 350,000 donations were allocated to the campaign even though opponents on the wall were mocking the effort. After the longest closure of the US government, Congress refused to Trump to claim billions of dollars in funds. (AP Photo / Gregory Bull, File)
Cuellar's remarks also followed those of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who described the border wall as "immorality" and said the Democrats would not take it for granted. no money to build one. Several well-known Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, MD, and Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, have distanced themselves from Pelosi's uncompromising attitude. THE TRACK OF NEGOTIATIONS ON THE BORDER WALL
Trump hinted that he could call a national emergency if Congress does not agree to provide financial assistance to his wall project along from the southern border. ("I think there's a good chance we should do it," Trump said last week, citing the declaration of a national emergency.)
The White House has already announced that she would accept a "large down payment" on the wall – an idea that Pelosi summarily dismissed.
In a statement that was due to air on Sunday, Trump told CBS News: "You know, many national emergencies have been fired in. And it's really an invasion of our country by drug traffickers. human beings. "He also called Pelosi" very rigid ".
Asked about the possibility that Trump declares the state of emergency to fund the construction of a new wall without congressional approval, Hoeven suggested that congressional Republicans support the Approaching the president.
"I think what the president is saying if we do not compromise and if he puts a compromise on the table, a real compromise – what the Democrats want – but if President Pelosi can not get a compromise and a good solution, it would then be obliged to follow the national emergency route, "Hoeven said.
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But Cuellar replied that as long as congressional negotiators are able to work without interference from the White House or from the United States. elsewhere, an agreement can realistically be concluded well before the deadline of 15 February.
"If we do not experience external pressures, the committee can sit down and solve this problem," said Cuellar. "The appropriators are, as you know – in Washington, there are Republicans and Democrats and Householders in the House and Senate, we can find an agreement, I know we can sit down and settle it, if we do not do it lobby, do what we need to do, and believe that as the appropriators, Democrats of the House and Senate, Republicans, we can find a solution. "[19659020] Kurdish flags fly high in their self-declared autonomous region Syria “/>
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