Trump Makes Twitter Threats to Close Border
by: Daveda Gruber:
On Friday President Trump has tweeted up a storm and you can see that he wants the wall. He is demanding that if Democrats do not give up the funds for the barrier, he will “close the Southern border entirely”
Trump also warning that he will cut aid to Central American countries and pull back on trade with Mexico.
The partial government shutdown is going into its second week. The closures began last Saturday after Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a funding package that would keep the government open and fund Trump’s promised border wall.
Trump has demanded $5 billion for the barrier that would be slotted and act as a wall but one could see through it.
Democrats have refused Trump the money and are offering $1.3 billion for general border security.
We seem to be between a rock and a hard place with Congress at this point. Trump has even suggested pulling back on the recently renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which now goes by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Trump is having his own tweet storm and 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
….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…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
…..close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico. Either we build (finish) the Wall or we close the Border……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
…..Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for the United States but taking our money. Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries – taking advantage of U.S. for years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
Trump has threatened to shut down the border before but it never came about. This is not the first time he threatened to cut aid to countries that assist, or do nothing to stop, the caravans.
Earlier this month, the U.S. pledged a total of $10.6 billion in aid and investment for Central America and southern Mexico. This is a part of a push to promote better security and job opportunities so that Central Americans and Mexicans will not want to come into the U.S.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s calls for immigrants claiming asylum in the U.S. to be returned to Mexico as their cases are processed. This could be disrupted if there was a cut-off of trade relations with Mexico
On Friday Trump’s incoming acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, declared Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is interested in a deal but Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi is preventing it.
Mulvaney said on TV, “We don’t think they will [negotiate] until after the new Congress is sworn in.”
Pelosi has denied claims that they haven’t provided a counteroffer.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff said, “Democrats have offered Republicans three options to re-open government that all include funding for strong, sensible, and effective border security but not the President’s immoral, ineffective and expensive wall. With the House Majority, Democrats will act swiftly to end the Trump Shutdown, and will fight for a strategic, robust national security policy, including strong and smart border security, and strong support for our servicemembers and veterans.”
Why do I not believe that Pelosi is using this to secure herself as Speaker of the House?
That would make Pelosi the second in line if God forbid, anything happened to our president. That is a very scary thought.
