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President Trump threatened to close the entire southern border with Mexico if his requests for additional funding for the construction of a wall were not met.
Trump tweeted Friday that if the "obstructionist democrats" did not give him the $ 5 billion requested for the construction of the border wall he was considering, he would "completely close the southern border."
"We will be forced to close the southern border completely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to complete the wall and change the ridiculous immigration laws to which our country is subject", tweeted the president. "Hard to believe that there was a congress and a president who would approve!"
We will be forced to completely close the southern border if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to complete the wall and change the ridiculous laws on immigration that our country is facing. Hard to believe that a Congress and a President would agree!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
The government has been partially closed since last week because of the stalemate between Trump and the Democrats for funding a security wall project along the US-Mexico border. The government's closure, which has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees unemployed, is expected to last until the new year.
AFP / Getty Images, FILE On Thursday, the Senate sat only four minutes after the legislature did not arrive. They are not expected in Washington until the middle of next week.
About 420,000 federal public servants have been forced to work unpaid during the holidays and another 380,000 are on sick leave.
Carlos Barria / Reuters, FILE The stalemate also occurs when a second child is died at the border this month.
Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, an 8-year-old Guatemalan, died while in US custody and border protection at the beginning of the week.
[8septembre1965] A 7-year-old girl, Jakelin Caal Maquin, also died in police custody on a border patrol.
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