Trump Open To Government Shutdown If Border Wall Isn't Funded

President Trump arrived a short time before 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

Trump will be joined Tuesday by immigration officials from his administration, according to the White House. Officials in Phoenix are bracing for large-scale demonstrations as Trump opponents and supporters converge on the city's downtown for the president's appearance Tuesday night. While Trump won Arizona in November, he's been openly feuding with the state's two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, both of whom are frequent Trump critics.

The White House said in Yuma specifically, illegal border crossings have plummeted 82% since 2007.

"Things to do today: laundry, put out trash, oppose Nazis", said one sign.

Different contractors have submitted requests to build a border wall.

"I believe the media is against him, the Democrats are against him, some members of his own party are against him, so I´m here to say I stand by your policies", he told AFP.

He spent several minutes recounting the Senate health care debate earlier this summer, in which Republicans came up one vote short of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

"When Nazis are comfortable marching on the streets with fire, and with what happened after Charlottesville, I didn´t want to sit at home and do nothing", said organizer Anabel Martinez.

She tweeted that the email's objective was to provide reporters with "research on Trump's lies" and noted that DNC chair Tom Perez earlier this month said a massive border wall along the southern border of the United States is "ludicrous" and a waste of tax dollars.

BUILDING A WALL TO SECURE THE BORDER: President Trump is following through on his promise to the American people to build a wall to secure the southern border and the Yuma Sector is a clear example of how effective the wall can be.

Trump had insisted that Mexico will pay for the wall - estimated to cost about $22 billion.

Having failed in that bid, he has turned to equally reticent Republicans in Congress to get USA funding.

President Trump supports the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which would block localities that do not cooperate with immigration enforcement from receiving many Federal grants.

A failure would be another setback for a president who has seen his message overshadowed by controversy and his agenda thwarted by legislative missteps.

Trump made bolstering border security and pursuit of undocumented immigrants already in the US a centerpiece of his campaign for president.

President Trump instituted tough immigration policies that have reduced illegal border crossings over the southwest border by 47 percent compared to the same period past year.