{"id":393640,"date":"2019-01-21T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-would-not-rule-out-a-wall\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:56:01","slug":"i-would-not-rule-out-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-would-not-rule-out-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Would Not Rule Out A Wall\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe notion that we can\u2019t have barriers is just something that\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>January 18, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Democratic Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson declared Sunday that he is open to the possibility of a border wall, a comment directly at odds with the statements made by the party\u2019s leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have declared that they will not under any circumstances support funding for a barrier on the border. However, an increasing number of Democrats appear to be falling out of line with that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d Thompson was asked if he would rule out a wall in negotiations with President Donald Trump to reopen the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not rule out a wall in certain instances,\u201d Thompson replied, adding that \u201cthe notion that we can\u2019t have barriers is just something that\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8f-MLn8jUBM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to have a plan and the plan that the president initially started with is where he is now. We don\u2019t know where he will be tomorrow.\u201d Thompson continued.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Host Martha Raddatz\u00a0further told Thompson \u201cYou just heard the chief of border protection for the San Diego sector tell me barriers are an essential part of effectively controlling the border.\u201d referring to an earlier interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was showing me exactly the kind of barriers that President Trump was talking about \u2026 so why are Democrats opposed to any physical wall in addition to updated technology?\u201d Raddatz asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think Democrats are opposed to any physical barriers. It\u2019s just the president constantly evolves his description of the wall just as he indicated Mexico was going to pay for whatever was there.\u201d Thompson replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what we have to do is sit down, work through this and let the public know exactly what we\u2019re talking about and what they can&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/democratic-homeland-security-chair-i-would-not-rule-out-a-wall.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe notion that we can\u2019t have barriers is just something that\u2019s not true.\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comJanuary 18, 2019 The Democratic Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson declared Sunday that he is open to the possibility of a border wall, a comment directly at odds with the statements made by the party\u2019s leaders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}