Lawfare Archive: About That Border Wall
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
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From January 28, 2017: President Trump kicked off the first foreign policy crisis of his new administration by signing an executive order mandating the construction of the much-promised border wall with Mexico, resulting in as-yet-unresolved confusion as to how the wall will be paid for and an ongoing diplomatic scuffle with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and writer of Lawfare's "Beyond the Border" series, to chat about what the wall might look like, how effective it will or won't be, and what this means for U.S.-Mexico relations.
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| 0:57.2 | visit CFA Institute.org slash set the standard today. I'm Anna Hickey, associate editor for Communications with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for January 20, 2004 2024. This week Congress continued its debate on Ukraine |
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| 1:37.5 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from January 28th, 2017, in which Benjamin Wittis spoke with |
| 1:44.8 | Stephanie Luteer, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of |
| 1:49.1 | Texas at Austin, to chat about what Trump's much promised border wall with Mexico would look like, |
| 1:55.0 | how effective it will or won't be, and what this means for U.S. Mexico relations. I'm Quinta Jressic and this is the law fair podcast, January 28, 2017. |
| 2:15.0 | Five days after being sworn in as president, |
| 2:18.0 | Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the federal government to begin work |
| 2:22.0 | on the much-prom promised border wall with Mexico. |
| 2:25.0 | Setting aside the question of whether or not a wall would actually be effective from the perspective |
| 2:28.8 | of border security, it will also be extraordinarily expensive, and Trump has proposed paying for it |
| 2:34.6 | through a 20% tax on all imports from Mexico for the White House walked that plan |
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