Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the nation's southern border walls will be painted black to better repel anyone who might try to scale them.
"This wall is part of the difference," Noem said on social media Wednesday. "Too high to climb. Too narrow to squeeze through."
"And now, at the president's direction, it will be painted black-- so hot to the touch that criminal illegal aliens won't even try," she added.
President Donald Trump had previously recommended the border wall be painted black for the same reasons during his first term in the White House.
"That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb," she said in a press conference Tuesday.
