US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will use emergency powers to build a wall on the US border with Mexico, saying walls work.
He is due to sign the plan along with a spending bill aimed at preventing a repeat of a recent government shutdown.
He announced the plan after Congress refused to pay for a wall in the bill. The declaration will give Mr Trump access to billions of dollars for his project.
While announcing this to Journalists, President Trump said they are going to confront the national security crisis on US southern border, adding that it’s very simple they want to stop criminals and gangs coming into US.
Building the wall was a key pledge of Mr Trump’s campaign, but Democrats have described the emergency as a gross abuse of power.
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