President Donald Trump visits McAllen, Texas, on the southern U.S. border in an attempt to win support for his plan to build a wall. Donald Trump has visited the US-Mexico border in an effort to boost his case for a proposed wall after threatening to declare a national emergency over his failure to secure funding. The president flew south aboard Air Force One to the town of McAllen in Texas on Thursday, some 24 hours after talks with senior Democrats aimed at ending an ongoing government shutdown concluded in acrimony.
He repeated his claim that Mexico would end up paying for its construction, albeit via a trade deal rather than a cheque for millions of dollars - something he had promised voters on the campaign trail before the 2016 election. And after Ms Pelosi told reporters at an earlier news conference in Washington that a wall was "not the best way to protect our borders", the president looked - unconvincingly - to history for evidence of its effectiveness.
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