US hopes to have border wall finished within two years: official

President Trump signed directives to build a wall along the 2,000-mile US-Mexican border and strip federal funding from ''sanctuary'' cities that shield illegal immigrants. [Photo/Agencies]

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Thursday he hoped to have a wall along the southern US border with Mexico finished within two years, according to an interview with Fox News.

"The wall will be built where it's needed first, and then it will be filled in. That's the way I look at it," Kelly said in the interview. "I really hope to have it done within the next two years." He added he thought funding from Congress for the massive project would come "relatively quickly."