Trump news: President hints he will shut down asylum process during California border visit
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Donald Trump has attacked the late former first lady Barbara Bush in a newspaper interview a day after posting a satirical alt-right meme of ex-vice-president Joe Biden on Twitter.
“I see that you are on the job and presidential, as always,” Mr Biden responded to the tweet, which sits pinned to the top of the president’s Twitter profile. The video in question sends up Mr Biden’s apology after he was accused of inappropriate conduct towards women while on the campaign trail, and was circulated by Donald Trump Jr earlier on Thursday.
Mr Trump then made a stop in Calexico, California, to inspect construction work on his US-Mexico wall after rowing back on his threat to close the border, the trip providing a timely change of focus for the president after thousands of protesters campaigned outside the White House and in New York’s Times Square to demand the release of the Mueller report in full.
While in southern California, Mr Trump heard from officials who praised his leadership and promised to build some 400 miles of border wall in the next year and a half.
Mr Trump, during a round table with Border Patrol officials, said that the US has no more room for immigrants — and thanked Mexican officials for what he described as new efforts to stop migrants from making it to the US-Mexico border.
Trump prototypes for Mexico border wall demolished in California
Show all 20The White House, prior to Mr Trump's visit to the border, hailed the 2-miles of fencing there as the first completed section of the president's border wall.
But, Mr Trump cannot take full credit for the construction: Border barriers have existed there for decades, and plans for the recent renovations first began to develop during the presidency of Barack Obama.
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When he arrives at the border, the president may encounter the infamous Trump baby balloon that seems to be following him everywhere he goes.
Photos show the giant inflatable Trump baby at the border, close to where Mr Trump is expected to tour later today.
We're about a half an hour away from Donald Trump's remarks at the US-Mexico border. Stay tuned for that live coverage.
Here's Donald Trump, tweeting from Air Force One:
The claim has been made by Mr Trump previously, and the assertion that his administration has accomplished more than any other in history has been widely ridiculed — the United Nations General Assembly even laughed at him for it.
Not really sure where he is getting 400 miles from on this one, as the White House has said his national emergency money — a figure of about $8bn — would go towards building 234 miles of bollard wall.
In case you missed it, Donald Trump reacted pretty angrily yesterday to reports that the Justice Department was withholding parts of the Mueller report.
Here are the folks traveling with the president today in California, per deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley:
-Representative Kevin McCarthy
- Representative Ken Calvert
- Representative Mike Rogers
- Representative Tom McClintock
- Reppresentative Chuck Fleischmann
- Representative Doug LaMalfa
- US Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan
- Lieutenant General Todd Semonite Army Corps of Engineers
Donald Trump is now speaking at a round table in California. He is describing the immigration system as "full".
He says that the US has been "trying to take people", but that the US cannot do that anymore.
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