President Donald Trump will travel to the U. S. border with Mexico on Thursday, the White House announced.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced the planned visit in a tweet Monday.
« President @realDonaldTrump will travel to the Southern border on Thursday to meet with those on the frontlines of the national security and humanitarian crisis, » she said. « More details will be announced soon. »
Trump made his first visit to the border as president 10 months ago. During that trip, Trump toured 30-foot-tall steel and concrete prototypes of the border wall in California and strongly condemned jurisdictions that offer « sanctuary » to undocumented immigrants.
Trump and congressional Democrats remain at an impasse on crafting a deal to reopen the government, which is in its 17th day of a partial shutdown. Democrats, who retook control of the House last week, have passed measures that would fund the federal agencies affected, but Trump has balked at any legislation that does not meet his demand for border wall funding.
