Trump warns before the wall with Mexico that the 'impeachment' is "very dangerous" for the US

Donald Trump, upon his arrival in Alamo (Texas), where he boasted of the kilometers of wall built by his government.CARLOS BARRIA / Reuters

With Washington mired in one of the worst crises in recent history and on the verge of becoming the first president to be subjected to two

, President Donald Trump traveled to the border with Mexico on Tuesday to show off the wall expansion works and he has defended himself against attempts by Democrats to impeach him through impeachment.

Trump referred to the opposition process as the "greatest witch hunt in history" in the country "which is causing tremendous anger, division and pain."

"It is something bigger than anyone could understand, which is very dangerous for the United States, especially now."

Trump's visit to the border is the first official departure from the White House since the assault on Congress by his supporters, many of them belonging to white supremacist groups from across the country.

With the Democrats in Washington urging the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president or to launch a second

against him, this time for "incitement to insurrection," Trump has charged against his political rivals.

“The 25th Amendment is not a risk to me, but it could be turned against Joe Biden.

As the saying goes: be careful what you wish for, ”he warned.

In addition, he has assured that freedom of expression is at risk.

After 2 in the afternoon, the president has reached a border section in El Álamo, in the sector of the Rio Grande Valley, in southern Texas, the area through which most undocumented immigrants enter the United States.

On a bank of the river that divides a good part of the 3,100 kilometers that separate that country with Mexico, a stretch of fence with black bars several meters wide awaited him, and a huge United States flag, configured as if it were a movie set. .

There he has boasted as "one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of the United States", the more than 720 kilometers of wall built with Mexico.

"They said it couldn't be done and we did it," the president said to a small group of people, among whom were numerous border security agents.

However, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), most of the fence built is replacing old barriers that had deteriorated.

The president has also claimed to have hit the drug cartels and coyotes and to "restore the law" at the border and has said that, if the Joe Biden administration decides to dismantle its policies, as promised, those groups will benefit. of it.

“Right now, criminals and coyotes are preparing to cross the border while the police are vulnerable.

We understood the importance of national security.

The Hispanic population also understands this, not for something did I win in this state with a wide advantage ”, he said.

In his speech, the president took the opportunity to show his gratitude to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whom he defined as “a great man and a great friend” who, with the deployment of the National Guard, helped reduce the migratory flows arriving in the United States.

From early in the morning, hundreds of the president's supporters gathered on the sides of the roads where the presidential caravan was expected to pass, armed with flags and Trump paraphernalia.

At a gas station near the McAllen airport was Rosie Elizabeth, an 18-year-old who voted for the outgoing president for the first time in her life in November and who shares her speech on free speech.

"They want to take away our freedom and democracy, they are taking away our voices on Facebook, but they are not going to silence us," he says.

And he complains that the social network TikTok blocked a video in which he denounced fraud in the elections, a complaint that the president has insisted on since the elections that Biden won, but has not been able to prove.

Near her, Jonathan Olivares, a man of Mexican origin who has been living in the Rio Bravo Valley for 20 years, waited at the fence for the arrival of the president with a T-shirt, a flag and the red cap in honor of the president, “the only "To go twice to that area of ​​the border, he says.

"Many people do not know what happens here," he says, mentioning the danger of coyotes who traffic in migrants or drug trafficking.

For Trump, the wall is an achievement of his term, but he has not managed to make it as high or as long as he wanted and Mexico has not paid for it, one of his slogans of the 2016 campaign. The data shows that his presidency Yes, it has managed to stop the migratory flow, which broke records in 2019 with the massive arrival of Central American families fleeing violence, poverty, lack of opportunities and the effects of climate change.

But it has not done so with physical barriers, but with a network of executive actions, administrative orders and agreements with third countries.

Also with migratory policies marked by cruelty with the aim of dissuading migrants from embarking on the path north, such as the separation of children from their parents at the border or the sending of asylum seekers to dangerous cities on the northern Mexican border. , and which President-elect Joe Biden has promised to kill.

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