Senior White House advisers say they don’t think the president will shut down the southern border, but they’re not sure.
While sitting down with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg April 2, President Trump said he was ‘totally prepared to’ close the U.S. southern border with Mexico. President Trump’s threats to close the southern border kept American businesses and Homeland Security agencies in the lurch Wednesday, as the target of his ultimatum shifted from the Mexican government to U.S. lawmakers.
An aerial view of cargo trucks lining up to cross into the United States near the U.S.-Mexico border at the Otay Mesa crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California on Tuesday. President Trump has threatened to close the border, and administration officials have been trying to minimize the potential impact on commerce should a closure occur.
A jump in unauthorized crossings has pushed arrests along the border to their highest levels in more than a decade, undermining Trump’s promises to protect the United States from Central American migrants he depicts as a grave threat to U.S. security. Joshua Bolten, president and CEO of the Business Roundtable trade group, sent an open letter Wednesday to Kudlow and other top White House aides urging them to talk Trump out of closing the border.
White House advisers have asked Homeland Security officials to provide guidance on the nuts-and-bolts of how a border closure might work, and whether it would be possible to conduct a partial shutdown that satisfies the president while still allowing billions of dollars in bilateral trade to continue flowing.
“Anything we could do to ameliorate the economic story is being looked at very carefully,” he said. “We’re very integrated with the Mexican economy.”
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