Moving the goalposts...
U.S. Border Patrol agent Brandon Judd advised Donald Trump's campaign. Judd leads a union, the National Border Patrol Council, which endorsed Trump and has advised the transition team. Trump initially said his wall would stretch the length of the whole border - more than 1,900 miles - which loom very large in the public imagination, though he has since said the wall could be smaller.
JUDD: The wall is going to be absolutely effective in certain locations. We do not need a wall along the entire 2,000 miles of border.
INSKEEP: I guess we should remember there are already walls, as well as fences along hundreds of miles of the border. And when you say strategic locations, you put those barriers in places that are easy to cross and in other places you let the harsh landscape do the job for you. Is that right?
JUDD: That is correct.
INSKEEP: And so you would continue with that strategy, maybe just with a little more construction?
JUDD: That is correct.
INSKEEP: It sounds to me like what you are hoping comes out of this administration is relatively subtle compared to the rhetoric of the campaign. You'd like some more people to be detained rather than let go. You'd like some more construction on the border where there's already a lot of construction. You want tweaks to the big policy, rather than a gigantic wall or some gigantic sea change.
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/17/50240...ion-confers-with-trump-on-securing-the-border