NYT helpfully reports on why the U.S. needs to expand the border wall

One of the arguments made by President Donald Trump on the need to, at the very least, construct new portions of a wall on the southern border is that illegal immigrants are just going around the wall that’s already there, which the New York Times so helpfully confirmed with this article:

In desperate bids to request asylum, families from Central America are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in ever more remote locations. @viaSimonRomero and @itscaitlinhd report from Antelope Wells, New Mexico: https://t.co/brJxKq1nvH

— NYT National News (@NYTNational) January 31, 2019

And it does look like we’re back to calling it a wall now:

Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go. Renovation of existing WALLS is also a very big part of the plan to finally, after many decades, properly Secure Our Border. The Wall is getting done one way or the other!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2019

Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2019

Yes, the media is going to love this:

Kellyanne Conway to @abbydphillip a week ago: “I’m asking why you and the polling questions, respectfully, are still saying ‘wall’ when the president said you can call it whatever you want.” https://t.co/WVu1gvfttD

— Dan Merica (@merica) January 31, 2019

It’s really not a head-scratcher at all:

? https://t.co/DeyPqrMz1q

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) January 31, 2019

The New York Times also provided the president with this grim statistic out of Mexico:

NYT helpfully reports on why the U.S. needs to expand the border wall

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