EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put words into action when she visited the Southern border on Tuesday. She grabbed a long-handled paint roller and proceeded to paint a new stretch of 30-foot-tall steel bollards border wall black.

“When something is painted black it gets hotter,” she said. “We want to encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally; come in the right way and have an opportunity to become U.S. citizens.”

Noem supervised the construction of several miles of new border wall in an area traditionally used by Mexican smugglers who cut holes in the current mesh fence to send individuals from all over the Hemisphere into the New Mexico desert. Hundreds of migrants have perished in that desert or fallen from the fence or in the

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