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Democrats and some Republicans have rejected Trump’s demand for the US-Mexico border, following which last week he refused to sign a wider spending bill, temporarily stripping funding from swaths of the government.
“I can’t tell you when the government is going to reopen…(Not until) we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it. I’ll call it whatever they want. But it’s all the same thing. It’s a barrier from people pouring into our country…a barrier from drugs,” Trump told reporters in his Oval Office.
“There is a problem in this world today called human trafficking…We are not going to let that take place. We are working so hard to catch these traffickers…We can’t do it without a barrier…without a wall. It’s my hope to have this done, completed — all 500 to 550 miles — to have it either renovated or brand new by election time,” he said.
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The people of San Diego wanted the wall built, he asserted, adding, “People were walking through Mexico right into San Diego, right over people’s front lawns by the hundreds, by the thousands. And they came to us, they asked for a wall…A drone isn’t going to stop it.”