"Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders," the Republican president said. His signature policy prescription was to build a wall across the 3,200-kilometre border between the United States and Mexico. Some of the border is already fenced, but Trump says a wall is needed to stop illegal immigrants entering from Latin America. And we will be, in a form, reimbursed by Mexico," Trump told ABC earlier Wednesday. Trump aides have weighed hiking border tariffs or border transit costs as one way to "make Mexico pay."

Source: Daily Nation January 26, 2017 03:18 UTC