Donald Trump led a rally at the Mexican border: "We must build a wall and we will do it quickly"

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, went to the border in El Paso, Texas, for a Monday night rally where he focused on his requests for a wall to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Trump started the show by boasting: "I do not know if they heard it: today we are starting a very beautiful wall".

"We have to build a wall and we will build it quickly," badured the president. "Illegal immigration hurts all the United States, including millions of legal immigrants, by cutting wages, depleting public resources and claiming innumerable innocent lives."

And he repeated: "The wall saves lives."

In addition to the wall and immigration, the President has raised many of the issues that he had already addressed in his second speech on the state of the Union last week: economy, trade war with China, crisis in Venezuela and investigation of Russian plot, among others.

Trump pointed to the positive numbers of the US economy under his reign.

"Since the elections, we have created more than 3.2 million jobs, 500,000 of them in the sector"he said. With regard to the trade war, he badured that "in China, they want an agreement". "These rates are costing them a lot of money," he said.

On international political issues, he highlighted his "excellent relations" with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un -With that he will meet on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam- and came back to condemn "the brutality of Nicolás Maduro's socialist regime".

"The United States will never be a socialist country"he said. This was one of the most praised statements of his supporters.

The rally, repeatedly interrupted by protesters, took place at the same time as an opposition march led by the former Congressman of El Paso, Beto O 'Rourke, which is considering a possible candidacy for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

"He challenged us, so we have 35,000 people here tonight, and he has 200 people, 300 people, he did not do very well," he said with reference to the democrat act.

President Trump's visit takes place when the US government faces Friday's deadline to fund about a quarter of its operations, trying to avoid a new halt after an unprecedented 35-day shutdown that is taking place. is finished last month. Shortly before the speech, Congress members from both sides announced an agreement in principle to avoid another "stop".

Money for building the wall at the southern border of the United States. he remains at the center of the conflict. Congress sources told the AFP that the agreement includes 1 375 million euros to finance a wall on the Mexican border; a key promise of President Donald Trump's campaign, which has it demanded $ 5,700 million for its construction.

President Trump can use his authority as commander-in-chief to declare a national emergency and bypbad the Congress.. Democrats say that an emergency declaration is unwarranted and reckless.

"Democrats must stop being so angry," Trump said. "What is happening is a miracle and we want it to continue. We have a lot to celebrate: in the economy, in the army, in the scientist. "

The president also referred to the investigation into the Russian plot, which he called "false information" and which was attributed to a plot led by the Democrats: "No president has to suffer what happened these first two years, it's a shame, it should not happen again" he said.

"Democrats become the party of socialism, open borders and crime", he added, in a sharp criticism of the opposition party.