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Trump inspects US-Mexico border wall prototypes

By Defense News staff

Mar 14, 2018

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TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-California A motorcade carrying U.S. President Donald Trump drives past a U.S.-Mexico border fence as he heads for an inspection of border wall prototypes in San Diego, Calif., on March 13, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted a video following his visit to San Diego, California, saying that without a wall, “we’re not going to have a country.”

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