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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
David Lightman

Democrats ready to deal on border barrier � just not a 'wall'

WASHINGTON _ Jim Clyburn wants to call his border security plan a wall, even though it's really not.

Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, is proposing what he calls a "smart wall," a border security strategy that uses technology, not concrete.

The South Carolina congressman explained his "wall" would involve drones, scanners and sensors "to create a technological barrier too high to climb over, too wide to go around, and too deep to burrow under."

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