President Trump will hold a rally next week in El Paso, Texas, his campaign announced Wednesday after he highlighted the border town in his State of the Union address to make a case for a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico divide.

The event will be the seventh Trump has held in Texas, and his first in El Paso, since he first announced his candidacy in June 2015.

“As the President continues his fight to secure our border, there’s no better place to demonstrate that walls work than in El Paso. President Trump looks forward to visiting with the patriots of Texas who are on the front lines of the struggle against open border Democrats who allow drugs, crime, and sex trafficking all along our border every day,” said Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. in a statement.

During his 82-minute speech to Congress Tuesday evening, Trump cited El Paso as being a success story for a border town with a wall as he continues to call on Congress to come up with a long-term spending agreement that includes $5.7 billion in funds for a physical barrier.

"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities," he said.

The Democratic congresswoman in the room who represents El Paso, Veronica Escobar, did not like that line.



He lies. @POTUS is once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso.



Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork — Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) February 6, 2019



"He lies. @POTUS is once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso," she tweeted in response. "Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork."

The claim about a drop in crime rate after the wall was built in El Paso has been examined by fact-checkers. An El Paso Times review found the rate of crime in the city did not substantially drop after the wall was constructed.

The rally in El Paso, which is also former Rep. and potential 2020 candidate Beto O'Rourke's hometown, will take place Monday at 7 p.m. MST. O'Rourke, who last year lost a bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, said Tuesday he will decide on a 2020 presidential run by the end of February.