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The U.S President Donald Trump has threatened to close the entire border with Mexico if illegal immigration gets uncontrollable. Trump said after a Thanksgiving phone call with the US military at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. He said that if U.S administration finds that it gets to a level where we’re going to lose control or 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 president said after stationing nearly 6,000 US troops on the border to combat migrants crossing the border without proper documentation. He said, “We’re either going to have a border or we’re not”. Trump has been railing against a caravan of more than 7,000 people slowly making their way towards the U.S-Mexico border as they flee rampant gang violence and poverty in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Trump claimed that he had already closed the border before and would do so again, even if meant Mexico could not sell automobiles to American customers. The United States recently signed a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, named the USMCA. This order replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and included provisions regarding automobile sales, but the president didn’t address at that moment. The president said, “Two days ago, we closed the border. We actually just closed it. We said, ‘Nobody’s coming in’, because it’s out of control. The Secretary of U.S Department of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen said a few traffic lanes in the port of San Ysidro near San Diego, California, had been shut down due to a group of migrants were planning to rush the border.