That's the wall on which Trump wants to use the billion dollar approved by the Pentagon.

Nelson Castro went to Mexico to show the humanitarian crisis on the border with the United States, where thousands of immigrants are waiting to cross the border in search of a better life.

The journalist TN and eltrece It is located in Ciudad Juárez, which borders El Paso, Texas. It is one of the main points of entry of the United States on the border with Mexico.

There, President Donald Trump wants to use the $ 1 billion that the Pentagon has approved to spend money to build a truly impenetrable "smart wall".

Juarez, 1.3 million inhabitants, the fifth most violent city in the world, infamous for drug trafficking, badual exploitation and a large wave of feminicide. On the other side, the quiet El Paso, with nearly 700,000 inhabitants.

In the middle and since 2010, a 211 kilometers closing. The wall, which the President of the United States wants to strengthen with a new concrete and steel structure and technology to detect the pbadage of immigrants, provides for measures between 3 and 5 meters high. Sometimes it is a simple wire mesh, sometimes a series of beams separated enough to see the other side.

It is estimated that in 2006, before closing 122,000 illegal pbadages per year. Last year, they were 25,000, according to VOA News.

The city of El Paso fell victim to one of Donald Trump's many lies. To justify his pharaonic wall project on the Mexican border, the Republican badured in the last speech of the Union, February 4, that "El Paso" had extremely high rates of violent crimes, the l 39; one of the highest in the country and it was considered one of the most dangerous cities " before having a fence.

"Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country. walls work and walls save lives"said the president.

The local authorities immediately rejected the president because, although there was a 35% decrease in serious crimes in El Paso, it was between 1993 and 2006, that is to say: before the construction of the fence, according to FBI figures.

Since then, El Paso is one of 35 cities with more than 500 000 inhabitants counting lower crime rate in the USA.

"It's true that El Paso is one of the safest cities in the country, it has never been … considered one of the most dangerous cities" said the sheriff of the city, the Democrat Richard Wiles, in a statement. "And, El Paso was a safe city long before walls were built," he said.

The construction of the wall with Mexico was one of the main election promises Donald Trump. However, congressional Democrats refused to fund the work, arguing that Trump was exaggerating the problems at the border to gain political revenues.

Trump finally declared national emergency to be able to skip Congress and unlock money for the wall, a measure condemned by many Republicans.

According to US figures, the number of undocumented immigrants held at the border with Mexico exceeded 76,000 in February, the highest monthly level in years.

On Thursday, the president again threatened to "close the border" before the arrival of a new caravan of immigrants.