Border residents in New Mexico say it’s time to build President Trump’s border wall, and told the Washington Examiner in a series of interviews last month that Democrats who oppose a border wall aren’t seeing the growing crisis in their state.

“These politicians are playing a game of chicken with our safety,” Kris Massey, a farmer in Animas, N.M., told the Washington Examiner about the need for a wall.

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