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President Donald Trump is expected to make his case for a border wall in El Paso Monday evening at a rally that begins at 8 p.m. Central. We’ll embed a feed courtesy of KTSM once the rally begins.
Trump announced the campaign rally last week. The news came after the president made a repeatedly debunked claim in his State of the Union address that El Paso was one of the most dangerous cities in the country before several miles of border fence were built there. According to the El Paso Times, violent crime in El Paso peaked in 1993. By 2006, it had fallen by more than 30 percent — two years before construction of the barrier began.
“As the president continues his fight to secure our border, there’s no better place to demonstrate that walls work than in El Paso,” Michael Glassner, the chief operating officer of the president’s campaign, said in a statement.
Check back later for a live feed of the president’s rally.
Source: Texas Tribune Blue Left News
