Protests as Trump inspects $20b Mexican wall

And despite strains in the bilateral relationship under President Trump, U.S. and Mexican authorities have collaborated closely to secure the area in Mexico for his visit. Protests are also being planned across the border in Tijuana, Mexico.

A coalition of groups supporting the president’s plan to build the wall will rally on near there, while activists, lawmakers, immigrants and various clergy will gather at a church about 10 miles to the west. The president made the wall between Mexico and the USA a centrepiece of his campaign and said Mexico would pay for it.

“The coffee-colored one”, she said. Two of them are unique to California, but one of them has been adopted by several other states and localities, potentially placing them in the Trump administration’s legal crossfire. “The largest ever”, Trump said. The state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas. It is ironic to see conservatives who for so long have championed states’ rights now embracing federal power.

While President Trump is not on the ballot this year, the midterm elections in November will feature many gubernatorial races, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the seats in the U.S. Senate, and many other state-level races. His administration announced a lawsuit against California for its sanctuary policies last week, prompting Brown to call it a war against the state. They have been pleading to return to the United States, saying they have paid their debt to society.

On a cloudy, wet evening, around 500 anti-Trump protesters rallied at Beverly Gardens Park, blocks away from a mansion Trump owns.

“Trump’s statements today in San Diego demonstrate his racist misconceptions that drive this anti-immigrant, anti-environment campaign for a multi-billion dollar border wall”. But he’s also there to raise money, headlining a GOP fundraiser with a goal of $5 million to support Republican congressional candidates and his anticipated reelection campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security has not yet developed an effective way to measure precisely how effective walls are at countering illegal immigration, but previous examples of border barriers have proven to work where they have been built.

California is the future, we are told. “I don’t want to go back to the Stone Age”.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine concluded in a 2016 report that immigration in recent decades has raised overall USA economic growth. “Lots of local, state, and national media will be there including Fox News, CNN, Orange County Register, Desert Sun, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and many others”.

Tuesday’s visit wasn’t Trump’s first to the border.

That’s because Supreme Court precedent affirms that the federal government can not “commandeer” state governments, meaning it can not impose “targeted, affirmative, coercive duties upon state legislators or executive officials”. According to reporting by The New York Times, such large-scale enforcement actions typically have a success ratio of around 30%.