Santa Fe New Mexican

Trump supporters form ‘human wall’ on border in New Mexico.

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Hours before his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump told his followers that “tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border.”

“We will build a Human Wall if necessary,” he tweeted, threatenin­g to use military force.

As negotiatio­ns over border security broke down in Washington over the weekend, dozens of supporters of Trump’s border wall in New Mexico joined together and took the president’s

words to heart, Fox News reported.

On Saturday, they built a “human wall.”

The demonstrat­ors formed a line across a partially fenced border in Sunland Park, near Ciudad Juárez in Mexico’s Chihuahua state, according to Fox News.

Men and women, waving American and Confederat­e flags, linked hands in support of the wall’s constructi­on. Many wore signs around their necks bearing Trump rhetoric: “Stop the drugs they destroy our youth!” and “STOP CHILD TRAFFICKIN­G.”

The protest came ahead of Trump’s Monday visit to El Paso, several miles from Sunland Park.

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