President Trump’s claim that a wall will ‘stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country’

The following article by Nicole Lewis was posted on the Washington Post website September 11, 2017:

“Just to add on, tremendous drugs pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before. This has happened over the last three to four years in particular. The wall will stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country and poisoning our youth. We need the wall. It is imperative.”

— President Trump, remarks at a news conference with President Sauli Niinisto of Finland, Aug. 28, 2017

“That wall is also going to help us, very importantly, with the drug problem, and the massive amounts of drugs that are pouring across the southern border.”
— Trump, remarks at a rally in Phoenix, Aug. 22 Continue reading “President Trump’s claim that a wall will ‘stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country’”