Trump praises impact of border wall
Stopped immigrants, virus, president says
SAN LUIS, Arizona — President Donald Trump visited the U.s.-mexico border Tuesday, where he credited his new wall with stopping both illegal immigration and the coronavirus.
In the blazing summer heat, Trump briefly stopped to inspect a new section of the concrete and rebar structure where the president and other officials took a moment to scrawl their signatures on the wall.
“It stopped COVID, it stopped everything,” Trump said.
“Our border has never been more secure,” Trump declared as he met with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and federal Border Patrol officials.
The visit came one day after the
Trump administration announced that it was extending a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and adding many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations.
“Right now we want jobs going to Americans,” Trump said of the move.
Later Tuesday, he addressed a group of young Republicans at a Phoenix megachurch, where hundreds gathered to hear his call for them to get behind his reeelection effort.
Trump hailed the “patriotic young Americans who stand up tall for America and refuse to kneel to the radical left.”
“You are the courageous warriors standing in the way of what they want to do and their goals,” he told the boisterous crowd. “They hate our history. They hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans.”