Trump officials pick 'high priority' towns for border wall

Washington

DESPITE more than a year of campaign rhetoric about a "big, beautiful wall" spanning the entirety of the southern border, the Trump administration plans to start with a much less ambitious footprint focusing only on the most highly trafficked corridors, according to a Department of Homeland Security planning document.

Identified as "high priority" in the document are the border sectors of the Rio Grande Valley in the southern tip of Texas - encompassing Rio Grande City, McAllen and Weslaco - as well as El Paso, Tucson and San Diego.

The areas were selected because of their proximity to u…