During a visit to the Mexico border, U.S. President Donald Trump future migrants to repentance. “The System is full and we can not accommodate you,” said Trump on Friday (local time) in the Californian city of Calexico, to the address of the immigrant directed. “Our country is full. Turn around,” warned Trump. “We have no place.” Several times he repeated this message and emphasized: “If it is full then it is full.” As simple as that.
On the Mexican side of the border, about 200 people demonstrated against the U.S. President. They waved U.S. and Mexican flags and placards carried inscriptions like “stop the family-separation” and “If you build the wall, tear my Generation”.
threat with import duties
Prior to his departure in Washington, Trump was distancing itself from its previous threats to close the border with Mexico. Since he had spoken of border closure were to proceed, the Mexican authorities clamp down on illegal migrants and they would have deterred from your journey towards the USA continue, the President said: “I must say, Mexico was in the last few days very, very well, since then, I have spoken of it to close the border.” To close, instead of the border, he wanted to prove now prefer to auto imports from Mexico, with import duties in the amount of 25 per cent, should Mexico take action against illegal Migration and drug smuggling.
Trump met in the city of Calexico with employees of the U.S. customs and border protection, which complained that the influx of migrants was not cope. The capacities are exhausted. The President spoke again of a state of emergency on the border..
state of emergency call
Trump complains for years about the Situation on the border with Mexico and had already been promised in the presidential campaign of 2016, to build a wall, illegal Migration, smuggling of drugs and people to curb the trade. In mid-February, he had declared a national state of emergency on the border to Mexico, without the consent of Congress to the construction of new sections of the wall to Finance. Trump wanted to look at the section on his visit to California is also a border to the existing border fences.
In the first two years of Trumps took office, no new walls were built in sections. There have been long repaired, only existing barriers or replaced. Just last November, the customs and border protection, CBP had awarded the contracts for the construction of two new sections in the Rio Grande Valley in the U.S. state of Texas, to be built this year. (scl/sda/afp)
Created: 06.04.2019, 03:12 PM