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Trump Threatens to Close Border with Mexico
Trump Threatens to Close Border with Mexico
March 29, 2019 at 6:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/29/trump-threatens-to-close-border-with-mexico/
"SNIP.....
President Trump “threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, potentially disrupting millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States,” Reuters reports.
Said Trump: “I’ll just close the border, and with a deficit like we have with Mexico and have had for many years, closing the border will be a profit-making operation.”
Vox: “But that is not at all how trade works.”
....SNIP"