WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trumpx (all times local):
10:40 a.m.
President Donald Trump says he’ll stop Mexico’s “cash cow” unless it does more to stop its people from crossing into the U.S.
Trump tweets on Easter that Mexico is doing next to “NOTHING” to stop illegal immigration and laughs “at our dumb immigration laws.” The president adds that Mexico must “stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!”
The U.S., Canada and Mexico are currently renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement at Trump’s insistence. Trump says NAFTA hurts the U.S.
Trump promised during the presidential campaign to build a southern border wall to stop illegal immigration and drugs coming in from Mexico, but Congress has frustrated the president by not moving as quickly on the wall as he would like.
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10:25 a.m.
President Donald Trump is claiming that Border Patrol agents can’t do their jobs properly because of “ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws” that allow people caught for being in the country illegally to be released while they await a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
Trump tweets on Easter that the situation is “Getting more dangerous” and “Caravans” are coming. He offers no information to back up his claims.
Trump also says Republicans in charge of the Senate “must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW.”
Senate rules require 60 votes for legislation in the 100-member Senate. Republicans only control 51 seats, and GOP Senate leaders basically have rejected Trump’s calls to change the longstanding rules.
Trump also says “NO MORE DACA DEAL!” to help immigrants known as “Dreamers.”
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