UPDATED: Trump threatens to 'close Southern Border entirely' if Democrats don't fund border wall

[RHMerriman]

79. So by "forced to close" presumably he's suggesting shutting down cross-border traffic

So by "forced to close" presumably he's suggesting shutting down cross-border traffic into and out of the US in the international ports of entry (San Diego to Texas). If he did, the economic costs would be significant, given the realities of US-Mexico trade and the impact such an interruption would have on the US supply chain... it would be in the tens of billions per day, at least.

Interesting numbers:

http://www.ustradenumbers.com/country/mexico/

Of course, four of the five top ports of entry for US trade with Mexico are in Texas, and the top five U.S. exports to Mexico by value are Gasoline and other POL products, motor vehicle parts, computer parts, low value shipments, and computer chips, respectively. They accounted for 26.46 percent of total exports to Mexico.

So one wonders how happy the oil industry, automobile and steel industries, technology manufacturing industry, and transportation/shipping industries - and the state of Texas, among others - would be about this decision?

The other issue, of course, is that is DJT does this, it's undeniably his decision, and he gets the blame.

Go ahead, fatso. Make our day.