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Trump threats to halt Mexico car exports

Friday, April 5, 2019


Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead that he'd slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs.

It was the latest, seemingly sudden attempt at new leverage by a president struggling to solve what his administration has called a border "crisis", the Associated Press reports.