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Trump’s Attorney General Nominee William Barr Built a Border Wall the Last Time He Ran the Justice Department. It Failed Miserably

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Barr’s solution to the immigration crisis was, in a way, decades ahead of its time: the construction of a heavily armored steel fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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In February 1992, less than three months into his first stint as the federal government’s top lawyer, Attorney General William Pelham Barr told a gathering of more than 100 law enforcement officials in San Diego that under his leadership, the U.S.

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