President Donald Trump to issue ‘big-league’ statement on the border
May 30, 2019, 6:52 AM | Updated: 6:59 pm
President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
PHOENIX — Donald Trump is planning to have a “major” statement regarding the border, the president announced Thursday morning.
While being asked questions on special counsel Robert Mueller, Louisiana’s abortion ban and the report that the White House wanted the USS John S. McCain out of sight during the president’s trip to Japan, Trump said he would be giving a statement on the border either later in the day Thursday or Friday.
“This is a big-league statement but we are going to do something very dramatic on the border because people are coming into our country. The Democrats will not give us laws, will not change laws,” Trump said after also saying he would have a statement regarding Louisiana’s abortion ban.
“They will not meet, they will not do anything. They want to have open borders, they want to have crime, they want to have drugs pouring into our country, they want to have human trafficking.”
Trump added that this will be his biggest statement on the border.
“We have brought something to the light of the people,” Trump added prior to boarding Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. “They see now it’s a national emergency, and most people agree, the Democrats agree too, but they won’t give us the legislation to fix it. Right now, if you catch somebody, you have to release them.
“They won’t give us the legislation, whether it be chain migration or whether it’s lottery, they won’t give us any and the asylum procedures are ridiculous. no place in the world has what we have in ridiculous immigration laws.”
While the details of the statement were not immediately known, Trump did say that the border would not be closed, but “was doing something else” when asked by a reporter.
The announcement comes after a federal judge blocked the president from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on Friday. Trump pledged to file an expedited appeal of the ruling the following day.
KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Jeremy Foster contributed to this report.
