WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th May, 2019) US President Donald Trump pledged to make an expedited appeal of a ruling by a US Federal judge to block him from building sections of the wall he has long-promised to build on the country's southern border with Mexico.
On Friday, a US federal judge in the Northern District of California temporary froze part of Trump's plan to spend billions of dollars, allocated as part of a national emergency declaration, for building the wall, which according to the US president will keep out undocumented workers from entering the country from Mexico.
"Another activist Obama appointed judge has just ruled against us on a section of the Southern Wall that is already under construction. This is a ruling against Border Security and in favor of crime, drugs and human trafficking. We are asking for an expedited appeal!" Trump tweeted on Saturday.
The construction of the wall on the US-Mexican border to prevent the influx of undocumented migrants and drug trafficking has been one of Trump's main campaign pledges. The president, however, has been struggling to find financing for the wall since Congress has refused to allocate billions of Dollars from the budget at Trump's request. In order to bypass Congress and secure the necessary funding, in February, Trump declared a state of national emergency on the US southern border.
