“It sends the wrong message… The President is full of it. Our country is not full, we're not turning back,” RepJimmyGomez says about President Trump’s comments claiming the US immigration system is full, even for asylum-seekers, and they should turn back
Washington President Donald Trump paid a visit to the US-Mexico border on Friday, following a week of confusing comments over whether he'd shut it down.
The President stopped in Calexico, California, Friday afternoon to tour replacement border fencing and participate in a border security roundtable. According to the Arizona Republic, the two-mile stretch replacement barrier he'll see was authorized prior to when he came into office, but a plaque on the bollards calls it"the first section of President Trump's border wall.
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