Trump suggested Spain build a wall in the Sahara: report
Source: The Hill
Trump suggested Spain build a wall in the Sahara: report
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 09/19/18 03:45 PM EDT
President Trump reportedly suggested to Spain's foreign minister that the country could build a wall across the Sahara in order to manage Mediterranean migration.
The Guardian reported Wednesday that Spain's foreign minister Josep Borrell said Trump made the suggestion during a previous meeting and that the president added, "The Sahara border can't be bigger than our border with Mexico."
The Sahara desert is approximately 3,000 miles wide from east to west, or about 1,000 miles longer than the U.S. border with Mexico. It extends beyond Spain's borders.
Trump's reported suggestion may have been made when King Felipe and Queen Letizia visited the White House in June accompanied by Borrell. ... Spain has overtaken Italy and Greece as the main destination for migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year, with more than 33,600 arriving by sea so far, according to the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations’ migration agency.
Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/407464-donald-trump-urged-spain-to-build-the-wall-across-the-sahara
Let's try this again, now with a legit source.
I had started a thread in LBN earlier today, but the only source was the questionable Express. I moved the thread to GD.
Spain reveals Trump proposed a wall in the Sahara Desert to deal with Europe's 'migrant problem'
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211153221
Another version:
Trump Told Spain To Build A Wall Across The Sahara: That Border Can't Be Bigger Than Ours With Mexico
http://www.joemygod.com/2018/09/19/trump-told-spain-to-build-a-wall-across-the-sahara-that-border-cant-be-bigger-than-ours-with-mexico/
Whatever.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Spain is in Europe.
There is the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Africa.
Words fail me for how idiotic this is.
I mean, little kids writing into XKCD ask things on this level of Randall Munroe, but they're in the single-digits. It's CUTE to ask how a fireman's pole between the Earth and the Moon would work... when the kid is 5!
https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/
As an adult.... not so much.
See thread @ https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11153221
Since this is in reference to Spain, Trump may have had the tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the northern shores of Morocco's Mediterranean coast in mind.
Migrants who make it from Morocco into these two areas then have access to Europe,
having gained access to Spanish territory.
"Increasingly Ceuta and Melilla's heavily fortified borders have come under pressure from African migrants seeking a better life in Europe."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14114627
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"Some 1,000 African migrants who stormed a razor-wire border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla were repelled by police."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4314784.stm
That's OK.
I forgive you.
him in somewhere, surrounded by four 30 foot walls.
