Minutes later the president blasted lawmakers, mostly those on the left, for opposing his top agenda item – hundreds of miles of steel walls on the southern border.

'Wealthy politicians and donors,' he complained, 'push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards.'

Democrats groaned when he referred to a 'moral duty' to protect Americans from an 'onslaught' of migrants forming a new caravan in Central America and heading north.

He demanded 'a new physical barrier, or wall, to secure the vast areas between our ports of entry,' while chastising lawmakers for their unwillingness to comply.

'In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall. But the proper wall never got built,' he said. 'I'll get it built.'

Pelosi chatted with Vice President Mike Pence, visible to the world behind the man of the hour, rising only to applaud patriotic, nonpartisan lines.

She wasn't amused to hear the president castigate her party for what's expected to be two years of aggressive congressional probes into everything from White House security clearances to as-yet unproven links between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian agents.










The attorney hired by Jay, Alex Spiro, also released a statement to the celebrity news site.

"We are not going to stop until he is released, bonded out or in front of a judge," he told TMZ. "What we have here is someone who overstayed their Visa with an application pending for four years—not a convicted criminal that needs to be detained and removed but, by all accounts a wonderful person, father, and entertainer who has a marijuana offense which was vacated and sealed."

In addition to Jay-Z, many more of 21 Savage's peers have come to his defense, including J. Cole and even Georgia representative Henry C. "Hank" Johnson—who wrote an endorsement letter and shared it with ICE on Twitter.