“We are going to place wire along the entire border,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

He noted that several months ago about 3 thousand migrants a day crossed the state border, but now this figure is zero due to the return of barriers.

Earlier, the Union of American Border Guards said that the White House was hindering the protection of the US border.

Also, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said that the authorities of the region, as part of a program to move illegal migrants from their territory, sent more than 102 thousand people to other parts of the United States.