A Democratic lawmaker unsatisfied with Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration says the president might as well build a statue flipping the bird along the U.S.-Mexican border, because it would be just as ineffective as a wall to guarantee border security.
“Trump’s executive actions are more about sending a signal to his voters that the new president will act on fears of Muslims and Latinos rather than put forward actual, thoughtful security policy,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, in a statement Wednesday after Trump signed executive orders for construction of a border wall, defunding sanctuary cities and increased border patrols and ramping up deportations.
Gutierrez, a longtime Trump critic and chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, added that “meaningful” border security is impossible without a “functioning immigration system that allows in people to work and live and keeps out threats and violent offenders.”
The 13-term congressman added, in regards to the wall, “I suspect that a lot of Trump supporters would be just as happy with a big statue of a middle finger pointed south, because both that and a wall are about equally effective as national security strategies.”
