Benjamin Netanyahu says Donald Trump’s Mexico wall plans are a 'great idea'
Prime Minister of Israel says his own wall building policy has been a 'great success'
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Your support makes all the difference.Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed Donald Trump’s decision to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
The Prime Minister of Israel said Mr Trump’s plan was a “great idea” and said his own wall building policy had been a “great success”.
Mr Netanyahu took to social media to offer his words of praise and show his support.
“President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” he tweeted.
Mr Trump signed an executive order calling for a "large physical barrier" between the US and Mexico. The order will jump-start the process of building the wall, which was one of the President's primary campaign promises.
In addition to the wall, Mr Trump signed an action to strip federal funding from "sanctuary cities” that do not prosecute undocumented immigrants.
The President also signed executive orders to ban refugees from entering the US and to rebuild the military.
The order bans refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the US and sparked international condemnation from leading human rights groups.
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