By Aaron Miller-
President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the southern border next week unless Mexico immediately stops all illegal immigration coming into the United States.”
His threat cannot be taken lightly, given his high proclivity to to speak out against illegal immigration and put America first.
The U.S president’s tough stance on immigration has never waned, earning him support among many sections of the American electorate, including the far right, whose wider ideologies are detestable. The American economy has not done badly under Trump, but his popularity has fluctuated since his ascendance t to global power. He has so far come through every major allegation, emerging almost unscathed in his most challenging to date- the Mueller investigation
Trump has called on Congress to immediately change what he described as weak US immigration laws, which he blamed on Democrats. In the wake of increased arrests along the southern border agents are o course to make several thousands of further arrests as part of its process of denying more people entry. Sounding serious, the U.S president said:
“We’ll keep it closed for a long time. I’m not playing games,” Trump told reporters during a visit to the Herbert Hoover Dike at Lake Okeechobee, Fla. Asked if that would include trade — Mexico is the country’s third-largest trading partner — Trump said “It could [closed] be to all trade.”
“Mexico is making absolutely a fortune with the United States. They have a trade surplus of over $100 billion, which is far bigger than anybody understands,” he said.
Trump said the urgency was because “we have right now two big caravans coming from Guatemala, massive caravans, walking right through Mexico.” If they don’t stop’ em, we’re closing the border,” he added.
The comments came not long after Trump blamed Democrats on Twitter for weak U.S. immigration laws, and then said he’d be closing the border, “or large sections of the Border, next week” unless Mexico took immediate action.
“This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and ‘talk,'” he wrote in a series of three tweets. The Twitter blast came hours after he issued a similar warning during a rally in Michigan on Thursday night. He repeated his unfounded claims that migrant caravans are “pouring across” the U.S.-Mexico border, and implored the Mexican government to do more to stop them.
“If they don’t, and I am telling you right now, we will close the damn border,” he said.
Trump ridiculed those at the border seeking to claim asylum, saying they’re coached by lawyers to say they fear for their lives. “It’s a big fat con job, folks,” Trump told his audience.
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His vow to close the boarder came after one of his long speeches at Grand Rapids , celebrating the favourable outcome of the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion with Russia surrounding the 2016 U.S elections. He described Democrats, politicians, and the media as ”bad people”, listing them s “The crooked journalists, the totally dishonest TV pundits” helped perpetuate “the single greatest hoax in the history of politics”.