30 minutes into an off-the-cuff defense of his decision to declare a national emergency to help build his border wall, President Donald Trump made an admission that may have handed ammunition to legal opponents of the move.
Trump admitted that he didn't need to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall, but that he did it so he could "get it done faster."
U.S. government data from the southern border indicates the vast majority of narcotics captured at the border is coming in through ports of entry, not the wide swaths of border in between where additional barriers could be erected.
And the number of migrants apprehended for trying to enter the U.S. illegally is significantly less than it was a decade ago.
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