Democrats ready to deal on border barrier -- just not a "wall"

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.”…

Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat and a member of the committee trying to negotiate a breakthrough, chuckled when discussing Clyburn’s idea. If a deal is reached, he said, people can call it whatever they want…

“We’re going to be discussing with Democrats, Republicans, the experts what is most effective. And at this point, I’m certainly not going to give an answer to that question,” said House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat.