Trump Doubles Down on Border Security

“President-elect Donald Trump had planned to prioritize operations aimed at protecting the southern border over traditional counterterrorism efforts, a strategy shift that faces fresh scrutiny after a U.S. Army veteran unleashed an attack in New Orleans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“When a Ford pickup truck rammed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, federal officials initially believed that the driver had crossed the southern border shortly before the attack—providing potential fodder for Trump’s attacks on the Biden border policy.”

“On Thursday, even after it was shown that 42-year old Shamsud-Din Jabbar wasn’t in the rented truck when it crossed the border, Trump still blamed the current administration.”