'Trump is right': Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu hails the president's border plans because the wall separating them from Egypt is a 'great success'
- Donald Trump signed executive orders to start building continuous wall along US border with Mexico
- Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted his approval, citing his own wall
- Israel built a 245-mile-long barrier along its border with Egypt to block migrants
- Netanyahu said his wall 'stopped all illegal immigration' and was a 'great idea'
- It is not clear how Trump's administration plans to fund a US-Mexico wall
Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border has at least one international supporter - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu cited his own country's wall on the border Egypt, which he says was a 'great idea,' as evidence that such Medieval-style borders are successful.
On Saturday, he tweeted: 'President Trump is right.'
He added: 'I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea.'
Benjamin Netanyahu supports Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the United States border with Mexico
Netanyahu tweeted his support of Trump's plan. He cited his own barrier along Israel's border with Egypt as a success story for such Medieval-style borders
Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday to start building a continuous wall along the United States border with Mexico - though who might pay for the $8bn to $20bn apparatus remains mired in controversy, Fox News reported.
Trump's executive order would also, if approved by Congress and then followed through, add 5,000 border patrol agents and 10,000 immigration officers.
This move would make it more difficult for people to illegally enter the United States from Central America.
Though with the harsh terrain, fences along many of the heavily-trafficked sections of the border and the general difficulty of uprooting oneself, it is already quite difficult to cross the border.
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Already existent: A section of the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, shows that some of the border is already walled-off. Trump plans to build a continuous wall that could cost up to $20bn
Trump's executive order would also, if approved by Congress and then followed through, add 5,000 border patrol agents and 10,000 immigration officers. Pictured: The US-Mexico border near its western terminus at the Pacific Ocean
Throughout his campaign, Trump insisted that Mexico would pay for the wall but did not offer evidence of how the country would be coerced in to doing so.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that Mexico would not pay for the wall and cancelled a planned meeting with Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump appeared to support a 20-percent import tax to help fund the wall on Thursday but his press secretary backtracked following backlash, the New York Times reported.
Yesterday, the world leaders agreed not to discuss the matter publicly, while Trump said he was working on building 'a fair relationship and a good relationship' with Mexico, Fusion reported.
The roughly 245-mile-long barrier separating Israel and Egypt was originally built to stymie the flow of migrants from African countries. Pictured: An Egyptian border policeman praying in 2008. The wall has since been upgraded
The roughly 245-mile-long barrier separating Israel and Egypt was originally built to stymie the flow of migrants from African countries such as Sudan, Eritrea and Nigeria - people fleeing economic dislocation or trying to find asylum.
Following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Israel further increased security along the border due to fears over potential insurgencies.
Netanyahu previously said: 'I took the decision to close Israel's southern border to infiltrators and terrorists.
'This is a strategic decision to secure Israel's Jewish and democratic character,' the BBC reported.
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