India, March 5 -- Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering his first address to the Congress in his second term, asserted that his administration had taken unprecedented steps to protect the US southern border while accusing President Joe Biden of allowing unchecked illegal crossings. Amid boos and protests from Democratic lawmakers, Trump dismissed any possibility of bipartisan unity.

"I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud," Trump said, unfazed by the hostility in the chamber.

"I can find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy in hist...