[Hawnsgist] Donald Trump Orders The Building Of Border Wall, Says Taxpayers Will Pay For It

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Wednesday that mandate the construction of a border wall between Mexico and the United States and ramp up immigration enforcement.

According to CNN, those directives include increasing the number of U.S. deportation enforcement officers, beefing up border patrol forces, and stripping funding from "sanctuary cities" around the country that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.

"Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders," Trump told Department of Homeland Security staffers in Washington, D.C.

In a one-on-one interview at the White House — his first as commander in chief — Trump told ABC's David Muir that construction on the border wall will begin in "months."

Trump also doubled down on his claim that U.S. taxpayers would fund construction initially and that Mexico would pay them back "100 percent."

Negotiations between the two countries to determine that reimbursement process will begin "relatively soon," Trump said in a preview of the ABC interview.

"All it is, is we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from Mexico," Trump said. "What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico." 

Trump also brushed off Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's multiple promises that his country will not pay for the wall.

"(Nieto) has to say that,” Trump told Muir, according to Mediaite. "I’m just telling you, there will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form."

When Muir asked Trump about a timeline for the border wall, Trump asserted construction will begin in a matter of "months."

"As soon as we can, as soon as we can physically do it," said Trump. "I would say in months, yeah. I would say in months — certainly planning is starting immediately."

Muir's full interview with Trump will air Wednesday night at 10 p.m.