Incoming DHS No. 2: We should test border wall before deciding to build it

Department of Homeland Security officials need to run a pilot program that will test the efficacy of a wall on the southwestern border of the United States, according to President Trump’s nominee to run DHS operations.

“I think that we should test things before we deploy them and we have to test not only are they effective in securing the border, but are they sustainable,” DHS deputy secretary nominee Elaine Duke told Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., during her Homeland Security and Government Affairs confirmation hearing.