GOP El Paso Mayor: Trump’s Wall Won’t Work and His Rhetoric Is Not Helpful

RUSH EXCERPT:

DEE MARGO: "His rhetoric is not applicable to El Paso or what I observed here. We have — we’re a community of — that has been — we’re one binational, bilingual, bicultural community. We have families on both sides. Commerce takes place on both sides. For every four jobs in the mckeyla manufacturing facilities in Mexico, there is one job here in El Paso. We have 50,000 employed because of our relationship with Mexico. I have a hard time with some of that rhetoric. We’re over 80% Hispanic. My great great grandmother came from Mexico, my great grandmother came from Mexico. We are a bicultural community and this is where people, if they want to talk from Washington about the border and about Mexico, they need to come down here. But one other thing I would like to throw in, rhetoric on the wall is ridiculous. It is not helpful. When I hear the wall, the talk about the wall, I think of the Berlin wall, we have a fence through most of El Paso, that was done during the bush Administration. Works fine. Designed to keep a criminal element out, wasn’t so much for the migration as it was the criminal element. Car thefts and things like that. But it is a see through, you can see through it, it works, it is fine. But most of Texas from a border standpoint is private land. So they’re not going to be able to do what they think they’re going to do. We are a sovereign nation. Mexico needs to do more to build up their middle class and their economy so that their residents aren’t trying to come here."