Trump wants Mexican wall as soon as possible

President Donald Trump has proposed construction of a US-Mexican border wall and is expected to pause the flow of refugees to America as he launched broad but divisive plans to reshape US immigration and national security policy.

A draft executive order seen by Reuters that Trump is expected to sign in the coming days would block the entry of refugees from war-torn Syria and suspend the entry of any immigrants from Muslim-majority Middle Eastern and African countries Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen while permanent rules are studied.

"We are going to restore the rule of law in the United States," Trump told an audience that included relatives of people killed by illegal immigrants at the Department of Homeland Security after signing two executive orders.
The directives ordered the construction of a multibillion-dollar wall along the roughly 3,200-km US-Mexico border, moved to strip federal funding from "sanctuary" states and cities that harbour illegal immigrants, and expanded the force of American immigration agents.

During the campaign, Mr. Trump estimated the wall would cost between $10 billion and $15 billion, without offering any specifics and repeatedly vowed Mexico would pay for it. Mexico has repeatedly said it won’t pay.

While Trump can start the wall by shifting around existing federal funds, he will need Congress to appropriate the $20 billion required to complete the massive structure, the experts and former officials said.

"What I'm doing is good for the United States," Trump told ABC News, explaining that the U.S. would receive a payment in some form from Mexico "It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico."

On Wednesday night, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto rejected Trump's plan. "I regret and reject the US decision to continue building a wall that far from uniting us, divides us," he said in a nationally televised address.