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# President Trump Issues Thanksgiving Threat to Close U.S.-Mexico Border

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## Video: President Trump Issues Thanksgiving Threat to Close U.S.-Mexico Border

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_Published 2018-11-22. President Donald Trump is threatening to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost “control” on its side._


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## Transcript

If we find that it's uncontrollable, Josh, if we find that it gets to a level where we are gonna lose control or people are gonna start getting hurt, we will close entry to the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. You mean the entire border? The whole border, I mean the whole border. We're gonna either have a border or we're not and when they lose control of the border on the Mexico side, we just close the border. If they have to, they're gonna use lethal force. I've given the okay. If they have to, I hope they don't have to. But you're dealing with a minimum of 500 serious criminals.

So I'm not gonna let the military Be taken advantage of, I have no choice. Do I want that to happen? Absolutely not. But you're dealing with rough people. US to people in Tijuana, Mexico. They opened up with wide arms, just come in, come in, let me help you, let us take care of you. And within two days now they're  Going crazy to get them out. They want them out, because things are happening, bad things are happening in Tijuana. And again, it's not in this country because we closed it up. Actually, two days ago, we closed the border. We actually just closed it. We said nobody's coming in because it was out of control.

If you take a look at Tijuana, Mexico and you see what's happening there, it's really a bad situation.

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