By Mark Anderson
ALAMO, Texas Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters braved unseasonably chilly weather Jan. 12, near the border town of Alamo, Texas, in Hidalgo County, to greet the president as he visited the area to christen “the 450th mile” of new or upgraded border wall sections which represents roughly one-fifth of the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico. Some far-flung border areas, as Mr. Trump and others have pointed out, have natural barriers like mountains, cliffs, and canyons that won’t necessarily require sections of wall.
President Trump landed that day in Air Force One at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, a former military airfield, before Marine One helicopter took him west to Miller International Airport in McAllen. He then traveled via his armored limousine to Alamo. Standing along a section of Highway 281 that was temporarily closed to thru traffic, his supporters cheered with considerable revelry and without any unlawful incidents. Security was light.