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Trump threatens to seal US-Mexico border if wall is not built
US President Donald Trump has threatened to seal the US-Mexico border if the controversial wall is not built.
According to Trump, the alternative to funding the controversial wall project would be total separation from Mexico.
“We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the wall,” Trump tweeted.
Read also: US Senate hands Trump rare double rebuke over war in Yemen, murder of Khashoggi
The latest development comes after Mick Mulvaney, the budget director and chief of staff to Trump revealed in an interview that the partial government shutdown in the US could continue to January 3, when the new Congress convenes and Democrats take over the House of Representatives.
The shutdown came in place after Trump and the US Congress failed to reach a deal on the proposed US-Mexico border.
Trump has demanded $5 billion as a down-payment on construction of a huge wall that he argues is the only way to keep illegal immigrants and drugs from entering the United States.
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