Kristi Noem: Black Border Wall Will Burn to the Touch, Discourage Crossings

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem puts words into action when she visited the Southern border on Tuesday. She grabbed a long-handled paintbrush and proceeded to paint a new stretch of 30-foot-tall steel bollards border wall black.

“When something is painted black it gets hotter,” she said. “We want to encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally; come in the right way and have an opportunity to become U.S. citizens.”

Noem supervised the construction of several thousand new border walls in an area traditionally used by Mexican smugglers who cut holes in the current mesh fence to send individuals from all over the Hemisphere into the New Mexico desert. Hundreds of migrants have perished in that desert or fallen from the fence or in the mountains in the past three years.

Prior to the border wall tour, Noem visited flood-ravaged Ruidoso, New Mexico, and toured the town with local officials.
In Santa Teresa, Noem and Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks repeatedly thanked President Trump for doing good on campaign promises of closing the U.S. border to illegal immigration.

“President Trump has done exactly that. Now we have to most secure border we have had in the history of this nation,” Noem said. “New wall is being built, the structure and more added to it (including) cameras and sensors. It will be efficient with resources as well as the individuals out there to make sure America is safe.”