Border wall engineer declines Trump invitation to explain secret surveillance technology

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A border wall engineer declined President Trump’s invitation to explain secret surveillance technology that is being used on the wall opting instead to try to keep the additions unknown.

Trump was speaking to reporters at a section of replacement border fence in Otay Mesa, California, on Wednesday. While fielding questions about the wall, the president began discussing new technology that’s being used at the border and asked acting Army Corps of Engineers chief, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, to extrapolate on his remarks.

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