In a Friday Tweet angrily condemning the “Obstructionist Democrats,” President Trump has threatened to fully close the US-Mexico border.
He says this will happen unless Congress changes immigration laws to
suit his tastes, and agrees to fully fund his border wall.
Democrat strategist Jesse Ferguson said that Trump had “taken taxpayers
hostage” by shutting down the government, and that this latest threat
amounted to “upping the ransom demand.”
The US government is in a state of partial shutdown for now over demands
by Trump to fund the wall. Congress has no votes scheduled, and isn’t
even intended to meet until late next week.
Trump’s comments were vague, as it’s unclear how the border closure to
legal traffic would do anything to impact illegal crossings, and
similarly unclear how Trump proposes to seal the border without a wall.
Trump Threatens to Close US-Mexico Border Over Lack of Wall Funding
Says border will be closed unless law changes, wall is funded
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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