Trump Again Threatens to Close Border With Mexico
President Donald Trump threatened again to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border. Last time, it was because he was angered that Central Americans were crossing through Mexico to come to the U.S. This time, it is because Democrats in the Senate…
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are not interested in offering the $5 billion in wall construction funding he is seeking for the current fiscal year. "We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with," he tweeted Dec. 28, continuing, "The United States [loses] soooo much money on Trade with Mexico under NAFTA, over 75 Billion Dollars a year (not including Drug Money which would be many times that amount), that I would consider closing the Southern Border a 'profit making operation.' We build a Wall or..... .....Close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico."