The lawyers representing the State are trying to settle in another instance, the California court order in order to obtain an injunction allowing the Trump administration to continue with the construction of the two segments of the Mexican border wall until the judicial authorities issue a final judgment on the case.

The appeal was presented Monday night as a way to look for a way to continue the construction of the two sections of the wall in Arizona and Texas, respectively, avoiding Judge Haywood Gilliam´s decision of the courts of Oakland (California), who ordered to block the project on May 24.

Magistrate Haywood Gilliam agreed to a coalition of 20 states, most governed by Democrats, an environmental organization and a civil rights organization, which had sued the federal government.

According to a comment transcribed by the Politico newspaper, the Justice Department said that the mandate threatens to deprive (the Department of Defense) of its authorization to use its funds destined to finalize the projects at the ports of entry of El Paso and Yuma, since it will surely expire during this appeal process.

In the long historical line of the “wall”, it stands out an item of $1,3 billion for the renovation of the existing wall, approved in February by the Congress, a number that was far from the $5,7 billion that Trump had requested. This made the president to declare a national emergency at the Southern border in order to obtain these funds without the need of the legislature authorization.

With the national emergency, the Government reallocated to the wall some $6,7 billion, previously approved by the Pentagon and the Department of the Treasury , which added to the $1,3 billion that the Congress destined to that project, should serve for the construction of some 376 kilometers of wall and allow the President to begin to fulfill his main campaign promise.

The building of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was one of Trump’s main campaign promises in the 2016 elections and one of the measures that most opposition and media attention has raised both in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Translated by: José Espinoza

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Achim Steiner, administrator of the UN Development Program (UNDP), stated during the debate on the Mexico borderline barrier, that the migratory flow will remain active as long as its causes remain unattended.

The Brazilian-German environmentalist said during a visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that stopping people on the border represents a limitation when the core reasons of the issue are not attended.

 According to the high commissioner, President Donald Trump’s administration is not only designing the construction of the controversial wall, but it is basing its Central America investment policy on whether or not these countries are willing to collaborate with it.

The environmentalist warned that those so-called aids based on financial arrangements could also be a double-edged sword.

He pointed out that what it is certain is the difficulty for desperate people to move from one place to another, either for reasons of poverty or conflict.

Caption: The migrants caravan that goes through Central America towards Mexico and the United States shows how the national policies, international cooperation platforms and financial means have not been working.

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The president of the United States, a New York magnate who became a politician and reached the White House in 2016, knows how to recognize opportunities and thanks to this ability he built his economic empire.

Thus, he considered “interesting” the proposal of Senator Ted Cruz to finance the Mexico border wall with the millions of dollars that El Chapo won through his drug trafficking network.

Trump made this statement during the visit of the Colombian president, Ivan Duque, to the White House

“Anything Ted does is interesting. So that’s certainly an interesting one,”Trump answered when asked by journalists in the White House Oval Office.

Now, the journalistic detail that can be highlighted from Congressman Ted Cruz´s proposal , is that according to the Prosecutor, the profits gained by “El Chapo” during the years in which he carried out his illegal activities, until he was finally arrested in 2016 and extradited to New York (USA), has been estimated in 14 billion dollars.

The Texas Senator´s intention is that the Justice Department may identify and locate assets from the Sinaloa Cartel former head, in order to auction them and transform them into a budget for building a barrier just across the border where the drug used to pass.

The US president response comes a day after Cruz posted a message on Twitter with his idea to finance the wall, just minutes after the jury’s verdict was published against El Chapo, who was found guilty of all the charges

Sen. Ted Cruz Proposes Unique Border Wall Solution: Make EL CHAPO Pay For It https://t.co/lXDpDfbfaz

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 12, 2019

“America’s justice system prevailed today in convicting Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo, on all 10 counts. U.S. prosecutors are seeking $14 billion in drug profits & other assets from El Chapo which should go towards funding our wall to secure the border.“Cruz proposed.

This initiative, also called “Ley Chapo” or The Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act, would divert the cartel leader’s drug trafficking incomes to finance border security.

The budget to raise the border wall, an electoral promise of Trump, was the main reason for disagreement between Democrats and Republicans which caused the longest shutdown in US history between the past December 22 and January 25.

During that administrative closure, Trump threatened on several occasions to persist on the construction of the wall using his power to do so through a national emergency declaration.

Translated by: José Espinoza

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