Mulvaney: only 'something dramatic' will stop Trump closing Mexico border

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Source: theGuardian





Move could have severe consequences for US economy
US citizens who cross border for work or family fear hardship



Sun 31 Mar 2019 12.22 EDT



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At the border, those who frequently cross between countries for work or family reasons worried about the impact on their lives.

A surge of migrants from Central America has increased pressure on border ports of entry, leading to controversy over the way such people are held and treated.

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White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told ABC’s This Week the president had few other options in the absence of support from Democrats for more border security or legislative action to change immigration law.

“Faced with those limitations, the president will do everything he can,” Mulvaney said. “If closing the ports of entry means that, that’s exactly what he intends to do. We need border security and we’re going to do the best we can with what we have.”

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Shutting the southern frontier would disrupt billions of dollars in trade and millions of legal border crossings, including those made by Andrea Torres, a US citizen. ........................

On the border bridge linking the two cities, so many students cross each day that authorities have assigned them their own pedestrian lane..........................................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/mulvaney-trump-us-mexico-border

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Cars wait to cross the Zaragoza international bridge that connects the US-Mexico border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez ,on 29 March. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP/Getty Images

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. "Something dramatic?"

Open Tee time?
Backstage pass to Miss America auditions?
Heart attack?
Buy-one/get-one-free at McDonald's?
Accelerator stuck on golf cart?
Putin needs a back rub?

[catbyte]

3. The Mueller Report looking like this, I suspect.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. ....

[YOHABLO]

17. Sad but true.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Killing the ACA and now this crap...

Is he feeling empowered after the fake Barr Report or is this Mulvaney's influence?

[okaawhatever]

10. Nah, I think he's trying to create a scandal bigger than the report. Barr's release date of Mid

April was probably based on the time needed for Trump to create a scandal big enough to knock the report off the front pages. This might do it.

[Iliyah]

4. The USA's present administration,

cabinet, GOPs, and effed up family to the person in the WH have gone below the lowest bar or line. They are dangerously stupid, and they don't care.

[Harker]

5. More likely something fabricated

followed by the border being closed.

[keithbvadu2]

6. If he can do that, he does not need his fake emergency. Right?

[oldsoftie]

7. he cant really "close the border", he can only close the entry points.

If he could close the full border, he wouldve already done it

[Cold War Spook]

8. So basically only legal businesses will be stopped.

He will also stop drugs that usually come in through entry points but they will just take another route.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Right. Let's save 10 billion and just close the border. And see how that works for ya!

Either way, a really stupid idea.

[ArizonaLib]

12. Yes - acknowledge the massive damage and then do it

He's been dying for immigration policy uprest since before the election. It's the closest he and the MAGAnimals can get to a race war.

[paleotn]

13. this is all Trumpian

bullshit. He in not going to close the border no matter how much he stomps his feet and flusters about. Millions of dollars of product cross the boarded every single day, going both ways. The mere thought of "closing the border" is insane.

[Kablooie]

14. That's an odd way of putting it. Does it mean something?

There are hints that the Trump people may be expecting the Mueller report to have more impact than previously thought.

[DownriverDem]

15. What a dumb ass

Tank the economy all in the name of hate.

[Turbineguy]

16. Al Capone's secret

hidy hole found?

Something new, something that is the most dramatic thing in reality TV history?

[YOHABLO]

18. For Trump it's all theatre for his base. I thought Bush jr. was a dumbass. Trump is a complete moron

[Honeycombe8]

19. This is a winning issue for him. But false as to the Democrats affecting it.

As if anything the Democrats do could "cause" Trump to close the border. More like he's going to do that and try to blame the Democrats.

He already got the National Emergency to steal money from other federal budget items for his wall and such, didn't he? That's on top of the already generous budget for the border. If he can't do it with all that, he's the one with the problem. But nothing is ever his fault. The buck stops...anywhere but with him.

[tinrobot]

20. More diversions from the Mueller report

He'll crash the economy or start a war to prevent that from getting out.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Putin got his bull in a china shop.

...opened the door and let him right in.

[James48]

22. Sell stocks.

Wall Street will not be happy the day the border closes. Will badly affect many
Manufacturers.

[BigRig]

23. hmmm...isn't this his go to move?

Create a crises then take credit for solving crises...in this case I'm guessing the solution would be a wall.

[mr_lebowski]

24. I'd guess that what he really wants is to close it to refugees

who are coming in at points of entry, forcing them to stay in Mexico ... but for some reason he cannot do this (legally?), so he has to close the whole thing, if anything?

The only positive thing (in his mind) that a full closure accomplishes is keeping refugees out of the US, where they legally (I'd imagine) must be processed and housed, so ...

But this is going to massively screw up the economy, and piss of a LOOOOOOOT of business owners and Wall Street.

As such I rather doubt he's going to do so.

Mexico, however, may not be able to risk it, and may decide to do as they're being extorted into doing.

It would cost their country a TON of money though because it basically would mean they have to set a 'mirror' of our Border checkpoints, where authorities would filter everyone trying to pass ... and only those with a right to go to the USA ... to proceed through to our checkpoints. Basically doing the USA's job for us.

The delays this will cause to get through northward to the USA will be insane as you'll be stopped twice.