Trump threatens to shut down ‘whole border’ with Mexico if immigration becomes ‘uncontrollable’

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Speaking to reporters while in Florida for the holiday, Trump threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost “control” on its side.

Trump also said he has given the thousands of active-duty troops he sent to the border before the Nov. 6 midterm elections the “OK” to use lethal force against migrants “if they have to.” And he said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, whom he has faulted for not being tough enough on immigration, is “in there trying.”

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Trump said that if U.S. officials “find that it’s uncontrollable, if we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. The whole border.”

In that case, Mexico would take an economic hit, he said, citing an inability to ship cars into the U.S. for sale.

“We’re either going to have a border or we’re not,” Trump said. – READ MORE

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