Trump will entirely close the U.S-Mexico Border

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The U.S President Donald Trump has threatened to close the southern border entirely if Congress will not end a partial government shutdown by funding a wall between the U.S and Mexico. Trump claimed in a flurry of tweets that shutting the border would be a profit-making operation because the country loses so much money on trade under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It allows labor mobility between the two nations.

The comments from Trump come as a partial government shutdown over the border wall looks set to continue into 2019. Democrats have rejected to sanction specific spending on the wall. They have indicated that they would be open to funding border security in general, but Trump has refused to back down on the demand.

Trump tweeted: “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. Hard to believe there was a Congress & President who would approve! The United States looses 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”.

The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that it was an internal matter for Washington. He added, “We take great care of the relationship with the government of the United States. Of course, we will always defend our sovereignty … We will always protect migrants, defend their human rights”. Trump said he wanted to bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs and go back to pre-NAFTA before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico.