Washington

Fortress America: Frustrated by the stream of migrants coming across the border, President Trump railed at advisers to find a solution at any cost—even if it was shooting migrants in the legs, The New York Times reported this week. Trump also floated digging a water-filled trench along a border wall and stocking it with snakes and alligators, or having the wall electrified or topped with spikes, sending aides searching for price estimates. “You are making me look like an idiot!” Trump fumed at aides in a meeting in March, before announcing that he wanted the entire 2,000-mile border shut down by noon the next day. Though his aides managed to delay the order and ultimately talk Trump down from a border shutdown, resistance from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen led Trump to force her out. “I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough,” Trump said in response to the Times report.