The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol in the Obama administration, Mark Morgan, said that he backs President Donald Trump’s effort to secure funding for a wall on the southern border of The United States.
Morgan, who was asked to leave when Mr. Trump took office, made his remarks during a Tuesday interview with Law & Crime.
“I’m here today breaking my silence to tell the American people that the president is correct in what he’s doing,” Morgan said. “The wall works – 100 percent. And I’m here today to support his efforts and what he’s doing to get what he needs to improve border security for this great nation.”
He was asked if he was pushed by the White House to make his remarks.
“I’m doing this on my own for one reason,” he said. “I’m a patriot.”
“I cannot think of a legitimate argument” against building a border wall, Mark Morgan, former border patrol chief for Pres. Barack Obama, said Monday in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
“Yes. They absolutely work,” Morgan said, when asked if walls are effective:
“If you look in the past, you don’t have to go too far back in history, that bipartisan legislation that was passed: the Secure Fence Act. In 2006 and 2012, bipartisan legislation passed where they built the wall, or fence, or physical barrier, or whatever you want to call it. It’s a wall. It works.”