U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump wants some 600-plus miles of the border barrier with Mexico painted black.

Kristi Noem broke out the black paint this week, grabbing a paint roller and coating a new section of the 30-foot-tall steel wall on the Southern Border in El Paso, Texas. Noem, the Secretary of the U.

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.