Five days after Donald J. Trump became the new president of the United States, an important decision was taken. He is one step closer from building his famous wall at the Mexico border.

On January 25th, Trump announced his main motive, which is simple: it’s principaly to lower the amount of illegal immigration from Mexico. It’s his first move to counter immigration in his country and the next one should aim at muslim immigrants. He wants to stop most of it.

Donald Trump wants Mexico to pay for the wall, because he said it’s not his fault if immigrants come to his country. For now, the mexicain president disagrees. During meetings, he doesn’t even want to talk about it. Trump is convinced that he is gonna get the payment from Mexico. Trump said: “I’m telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form.”

The mexicain president told Trump there were tight lines he shouldn’t cross. The wall can’t cross the borders and has to stay in the USA. It’s total lenght should be of about 3 200 kilometers and the construction should start in a couple of months if nothing goes wrong. Some natural obstacles like mountains and canyons should do a great job covering some of the distance.

A small fence is already protecting some of the border, but it’s not in good shape and doing much of a job. During the meeting, Trump said: “a wall is better than fencing and it’s much more powerful”. It’s somehow true that building this wall will make Trump’s reputation known everywhere around the world.

The construction of this wall will have impacts on the USA, as it could lower the amount of illegal activity coming from clandestine immigration. The bad point is that it might ruin the trade system between the USA and Mexico.

A few things are still missing before the construction. He still needs some paper to be signed about the appropriation of sufficient founds by the congress. This could take a long time. More development on this subject is to be seen in the next weeks.

(Reporting by Mathieu Boies; Edited by Jérémy Lachance)