US Republican lawmakers appear eager to fund what President-elect Donald Trump calls the “great wall” at the US-Mexico border without waiting for Mexico to pay for it as pledged by him, with one senior senator comparing the barrier to Israeli regime’s apartheid wall, hailing it as an “effective” way to keep out “illegal immigrants.”
Among top Republicans backing government funding of the multi-billion dollar project is Chairman of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affair Committee, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, stated on Friday that he had been “impressed with a system of fences he had inspected along the Israeli border with Palestinian territories,” read a Washington Post report Saturday.
Referring to native Palestinian residents in the Israeli-occupied territories as “illegal immigrants,” Johnson said: “I’m always looking for best practices. It’s been incredibly effective. They had thousands of illegal…