Beto O’Rourke: ‘If I’m Elected, I Will Tear Down That Wall’

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Beto O’Rourke confirmed in an interview Friday that he is planning to tear down existing sections of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Democrat presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke confirmed in an interview Friday that he is planning to physically tear down existing sections of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border if he is elected president.

So Beto I just want to be clear. Have you said you want to tear down the wall?” asked Latino USA’s Maria Hinojosa.

If I’m elected, I will tear down that wall,” Beto replied. “Then suddenly the Democrat is quoting the Republican Ronald Reagan– tear down that wall.

Right. So the short answer is yes,” O’Rourke said. “I would include all local stakeholders.

There are more than 600 miles of wall and physical barriers now along that 2,000-mile border,” he continued, arguing that they are “not working.”

In El Paso, we saw crime actually go up after the wall was constructed instead of coming down. It made us less – not more – safe. As an El Pasoan, I, for one, would want to take much of that wall down,” O’Rourke said.

Breitbart report: However, the former Texas lawmaker said he would defer to other communities on whether or not they wanted to keep the physical barriers in their cities.

If there are other places where a physical barrier – from the community’s perspective – is necessary or helpful and it already exists, I would to defer to them,” he said, decrying Democrats for advocating for the construction of physical barriers on the southern border.

Unfortunately it’s not just Republicans who advocated in voting for building walls here. Democrats voted for the Secure Fence Act that provided the authorization and ultimately the funding to build the walls that we have,” he continued.

During the third Democrat debate in Houston, Texas, Thursday evening, O’Rourke falsely claimed that the U.S. border wall kills “thousands” of illegal aliens.

Democrats and Republicans, alike, voted to build a wall that has produced thousands of deaths of people trying to cross to join family or to work a job,” O’Rourke claimed.

As Breitbart News reported, O’Rourke’s claim is patently false:

As Breitbart News has reported, hundreds of border crossers and illegal aliens die every year while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump has actually cut the rate at which illegal aliens are dying at the border with a number of new immigration controls to keep foreign nationals from attempting to cross in the first place.

While nearly 3,000 border crossers and illegal aliens died after crossing the southern border under the Obama administration’s eight years, existing physical barriers did not “produce” those deaths as suggested by O’Rourke.

This is not the first time O’Rourke has advocated for tearing down existing segments of the wall. He told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in February that he would “absolutely” take the wall down:

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10 Comments

  1. He will tear down the wall, unConstitutionally confiscate your fire arms and leave you at the mercy of MS13 and the cartels. He has no desire to protect and defend the American people against enemies foreign and domestic because he is one of them!!

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