Border security

Trump Transition Immigration Advisor: Wall Will Be Built

As Donald Trump prepares to assume the office of president of the United States, the policies he promised to pursue during the campaign are now beginning to take shape, as a noted "immigration hard-liner" has been named to Trump's transition advisors.

Kris Kobach (shown), the secretary of state of Kansas, is helping the president-elect draft an immigration plan that will reflect Mr. Trump's position on the controversial issue and will help him revise many of the previous president's policies.

"There's going to be a lot to do there in part because Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama are diametric opposites when it comes to immigration policy, so there will be a lot of changes," Kobach informed a Kansas television station.

As anyone who has even casually followed Trump on his road to the White House will know that perhaps the most controversial and certainly the most polarizing plank of the president-elect's immigration platform is the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Kobach says the plan for the wall is moving forward.

"There's no question the wall is going to get built. The only question is how quickly will it get done and who pays for it," Kobach claims.