Chris Coons: Trump’s border wall isn’t immoral

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Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Sunday he doesn’t believe President Trump’s proposed southern border wall is inherently immoral, appearing to break with some of his high-profile Democratic colleagues.

“I personally don’t think that a border wall is, in and of itself, immoral,” Coons said on “Fox News Sunday.” “What I think the speaker may have been referring to is some of the immoral immigration policies of the Trump administration: forcibly separating children from parents at the border and detaining children in cage-like facilities. The humanitarian crisis I think may have been what she was referring to.”

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