Donald Trump tweets ‘we will build a human wall if necessary’; some supporters take it literally
- Men and women, waving American and Confederate flags, link hands in support of the wall’s construction over the weekend
- Lawmakers hope to announce a border security deal to avoid a second shutdown
Hours before his State of the Union address on February 5, President Donald Trump said on Twitter that “tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border.”
“We will build a Human Wall if necessary,” he wrote, threatening to use military force.
As negotiations over border security broke down in Washington over the weekend, dozens of supporters of Trump’s border wall in New Mexico joined together and took the president’s words to heart, Fox News reported.
On Saturday, they built a “human wall”.
The demonstrators formed a line across a partially fenced border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, near Ciudad Juárez in Mexico’s Chihuahua state, according to Fox News.
Men and women, waving American and Confederate flags, linked hands in support of the wall’s construction. Many wore signs around their necks bearing Trump rhetoric: “Stop the drugs they destroy our youth!” and “STOP CHILD TRAFFICKING.”