Trump maintains clash on the sixth day of government shutdown US President Donald Trump held a meeting with the United States of America in Washington on November 27, 2018.

A family pbades in front of a federal government building in Washinton, Thursday, contests the lack of budget agreement due to the president's refusal to yield to his request to finance the construction of a $ 5 billion wall on the Mexican border. led to the partial shutdown of the government, which enters in the sixth day.

Opponents and some representatives of the Republican party accuse the president of influencing the problem of immigration for political purposes and claim that a wall is not the best way to secure border security.

In retaliation, Trump refuses to sign a broader spending package, forcing the federal government to shut down for lack of funds and leaving approximately 800,000 federal employees on unpaid leave.

"Did the Democrats finally understand that we desperately needed security at the border and a wall on the southern border?", He writes on Twitter Just three weeks after a surprise visit to US troops in Iraq.

"We must prevent drugs, trafficking, gang members and delinquents from entering our country," he said.

Trump had just returned from an exhausting trip to Iraq during his first visit to US troops in a conflict zone since coming to power.

Dick Turbin, a veteran Democrat, responded with his own tweet: "We do not anticipate the gin of the partial closure of the president's government.It takes our government hostage for its scandalous demand for a border wall. $ 5 billion that would be a waste and inefficiency. "

The President calls on the finance law to allocate $ 5 billion to the financing of the wall at the border, which aims to prevent the" bankruptcy ". illegal immigration to the border with the

The management of the influx of illegal immigrants to the border is complicated because of the influx of families and young children. Only a few years ago, it was mainly men who were smuggled into the country.

In this new context, two Guatemalan children died of undeclared illness in the custody of US authorities. National Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said "extraordinary protection measures" were needed to deal with the influx of migrants.