US President Donald Trump visited the Mexican border to deliver a message to would-be illegal immigrants and asylum seekers: don't bother coming.
The California trip followed a retreat fromNevertheless, Trump sees his campaign against a"crisis" on the border as key to his 2020 reelection bid, and his time in Calexico was meant to keep that message in the headlines.Around 200 protesters, accompanied by a giant inflatable balloon depicting Trump as a baby, were waiting for the president in Mexicali, the town on the Mexican side of the frontier.
Waving US and Mexican flags, the protesters carried signs with messages such as"Stop separating families" and"If you build the wall, my generation will tear it down." On the US side, dozens of people lined the road that Trump's motorcade took, demonstrating support for his policies."Build the wall," said one placard.
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