Trump talks about the wall

Rush Limbaugh

From the October 9, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, Rush, remember how big the wall was. Everything was the wall, the wall, the wall and it got bigger and bigger because they figured there was no way to get it financed because it's a massive -- you know, it's thousands a month. The whole thing, it's a massive project. It's actually one of the biggest government projects ever. Anyway, we're building the wall, we're up to 380 miles of wall. Had a huge impact, nobody gets through this wall. This wall is everything the Border Patrol wanted. I built it exactly, I didn't even agree with them on certain parts of it but I think they were right. They had to have see-through, they had to have this they had to have that. It's lined up with all sorts of wires and everything you can imagine. It is the best, OK, it's the best and it's had an impact that you wouldn't believe. And nobody thought I was going to get it done now it's almost completed it will be completed toward the end of the year, very soon. It will be about 535 miles, we may even extend it beyond that, but you know you have a lot of natural barriers. Rivers and mountains and other things that really do a pretty good job. But we are going to have it finished very soon, but you don't even hear about it anymore. And you don't hear about how great the border numbers are.

You know, people today, I ended catch and release, which was not easy because I had to go through the Democrats, but you know you used to catch somebody then release them into our country. And they would come back four years later but nobody would ever come back for a court case, it was the craziest thing. You would catch somebody, even a murderer, and then you would release them into our country. And then you would say, “You have to be back here in two and a half years to go to trial," and nobody would come back, only the very dumbest would come back, OK?

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Yeah?

TRUMP: No, that was about 1%. Catch and release, I mean, you know there were many programs like that, we got rid of most of them. Not easy to get rid of them you had to go through all sorts of hoops. But I got rid of catch and release, we have a very good border now. Now only people that come in legally are coming in. Well, the wall made a tremendous difference. But you notice you never hear about the wall anymore.