President Trump repeated his threat to close down the border between the US and Mexico, this time setting a deadline of next week if Mexico doesn't step up. @edlavaCNN reports. https://t.co/2z1TnDVGfY pic.twitter.com/DhG76JRQYF
— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2019
Trump just now: "Mexico is going to have to do something. With the trade deficit we've had with Mexico, closing the border is going to be a profit-making operation."
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2019
A profit-making operation. Hmmmm.
Here's the full (eye-poppingly inaccurate) quote: "Mexico is gonna have to do something, otherwise I'm closing the border. 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."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019
Just now, per @JDiamond1, Trump "falsely claimed that 'closing the border will be a profit-making operation for the US,' even though closing the US-Mexico border would in fact result in significant economic losses for both countries."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 29, 2019
"Mexico could stop it so easily," Trump said of "big caravans" he claimed are now coming from Central America.
— POLITICO (@politico) March 29, 2019
He said he stopped foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador because "they set up these caravans" and threatened to close the border "for a long time" pic.twitter.com/UqxcBSgOwM
Trump says he’ll close all or much of the Mexican border “next week” if Mexico does not stop “ALL” illegal immigration by then. He usually doesn’t attach a specific deadline to this threat. pic.twitter.com/9ganJ2zMBz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019
TRUMP CAN'T: "shut down" the border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally
— Dara Lind (@DLind) March 29, 2019
TRUMP CAN: shut down legal ports of entry
ADMINISTRATION MIGHT: move staff from ports to take care of migrants, even (if necessary) to the point of port closure
YOU SHOULD: read this https://t.co/6LDrU8RsSm
Cutting off trade with Mexico would not stop thousands of migrants from crossing the border to exercise legal right to seek asylum on U.S. soil. And Mexico does not have the manpower or the means to immediately implement the kind of draconian enforcement regime Trump is demanding https://t.co/jm8Yn5crv4
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) March 29, 2019
Canadian-born artist is building a wall of cheese along the U.S.-Mexico border #MakeAmericaGrateAgain (h/t @NaheedMustafa) https://t.co/Ubor3CxMvI pic.twitter.com/oA4A7K4X9u
— As It Happens (@cbcasithappens) March 28, 2019
$558 billion in goods flow across the U.S.- Mexico border in both directions, making Mexico our third-biggest trading partner for goods.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) March 29, 2019
Closing the border would cost billions.
Trump is a business failure, and America doesn't have a rich father to cover up our losses.
Sad! 