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Trump’s tariff plan shows the risks he’s willing to take

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Exasperated by reports of a flood
of illegal border crossings, President Donald Trump sum-
moned his top immigration advisers to demand action.
Responding to his mounting concern, including his ex-
treme threats to entirely close the U.S.-Mexico border,
they prepared an alternative but still-inflammatory plan
to levy escalating tariffs on all Mexican imports to the
United States.
Thursday night’s surprise announcement of the plan by
Trump, threatening to upend ratification chances for his
own revised North American free trade pact, demon-
strated the lengths to which the risk-taking president is
willing to go to crack down on illegal immigration, even
in the face of bipartisan criticism, legal challenges and
polarized public feelings. He’s setting the tricky politics of
immigration and trade — the two issues that defined his
candidacy and bedevil his presidency — on a collision
course and injecting new tensions into his relations with
political allies as he struggles to show results in his cam-
paign for a second term. “Mexico has taken advantage
of the United States for decades,” Trump declared anew White House press secretary Sarah Sanders talks to reporters outside the White House, Friday, May
in a tweet on Friday. 31, 2019, in Washington.
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