Chuck Schumer: Border wall is ‘a medieval solution for a modern problem’

Published September 14, 2017 2:47pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took direct aim at President Trump’s continued push to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico, calling it “a medieval solution to a modern problem.”

The comments came a day after Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., struck a tentative deal with Trump to pass a package allowing those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to stay in the country legally in exchange for increased border security measures.

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