TIL Desk/World/Washington/ US President Donald Trump has reiterated the need for a stretch of about more than 800 km of border wall with Mexico to tackle what he said was a serious national emergency.
During a visit to a stretch of the border fence erected in Otay Mesa, southern California, Trump on Wednesday said the “tremendous national emergency” involving drugs and human trafficking could only be contained with the construction of the wall and “when human traffickers can”t come through”.
This was Trump”s second visit to the site, having previously gone in 2018 to observe the eight prototypes of the new wall he promised to build across the more than 3,200 km of the border with Mexico. The prototype project cost exceeded $3 million and was finally demolished in February without any being selected
