President Donald Trump said that his administration was set to take major action at the United States-Mexico border.
“We are going to do something very dramatic on the border,” he told reporters in Washington on May 30 before boarding Marine One. “I would say my biggest statement yet” would be made, he added.
The statement would be issued either later Thursday or sometime Friday, the president said.
“I’m not closing the borders, I’m doing something else,“ he said, adding that the statement ”will have to do with people crossing the border illegally.”
He said he was being forced to take action because “the Democrats will not give us laws” and “will not do anything.”
“They want to have open borders” with crime and drugs pouring in, he added, along with human trafficking.
Trump was slated to go to Colorado and speak at the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony.
Federal Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Wall Donated to Obama
A federal judge who ruled against President Donald Trump using Defense Department funds to build additional border fencing on May 24 donated to former President Barack Obama—the third Democrat donor judge to rule against the Republican president in a week.The donations started in 2007, just one year after he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California. They ended after Gilliam started serving as a U.S. district judge.
Trump has continued to note the background of some judges ruling against him, hitting out at U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta—who donated thousands to Obama—after Mehta’s recent ruling.
“As far as the financials are concerned, we think it’s totally the wrong decision by, obviously, an Obama-appointed judge,” he told reporters after the ruling. “He was a recent Obama-appointed judge.”