President Trump's central campaign promise -- a "big beautiful wall" along the border with Mexico -- will not actually stretch across the entire border, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told a Senate committee Wednesday. "It's unlikely that we will build a wall or physical barrier from sea to shining sea," Kelly testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Kelly's statement was the administration's clearest official acknowledgement that there will be no wall along the entire border, something he and other officials have suggested somewhat less directly in other forums. Throughout the campaign, Trump had insisted that the border wall would be a physical structure, paid for by Mexico. Kelly said many aspects of the wall remain uncertain, including the cost and the structure.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 05, 2017 21:18 UTC