Even Rick Perry knows Donald Trump's border wall is basically impossible
As much as former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) may support Donald Trump, even he has to admit it's unlikely the presumptive GOP nominee's plan for a U.S.-Mexico border wall will ever become a reality. "There are some that hear this is going to be 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso, 30 feet high. And listen, I know you can't do that," Perry told Snapchat's Peter Hamby in an interview. Perry also agreed with Hamby's assessment that the wall is "not going to happen."
But even if a wall funded by Mexico isn't looking so likely, Perry suggested that Trump could still build a wall of sorts, one that was "technological" or "digital," though he did not clarify exactly what he envisioned.
That sort of wall might also solve Perry's previous concerns that Trump's wall "would take literally years" to construct, no matter "how good of a builder you are."
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