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President Donald Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, the day that the United States announced tariffs on Canada and told Trudeau that there would be a “fair deal” or “no deal at all” on NAFTA.

The United States ended a delay of steel and aluminum tariffs for the European Union, Canada, and Mexico with a proclamation on Thursday.

“I don’t want to cause any problems, but in the end, Mexico is going to pay for the wall … they’re going to pay for the wall and they’re going to enjoy it, okay?” he said. 

“I will tell you they have been very difficult to deal with,” he said. “They’re very spoiled because nobody has done this.”

“We want people to come into our country based on merit. We’re not looking to keep them out, we need to bring them in. We need them,” he said.

President Trump’s tightened labor market is giving Maryland’s seafood industry reason to complain, mainly because they want to import more foreign workers to do U.S. blue-collar jobs.

Sen. Pat Toomey wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, promising to oppose President Donald Trump’s efforts to renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week urged Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence to seek refuge in nations outside the United States, like Mexico, to avoid the “dangerous journey” north.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has repeatedly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for not forcing Mexico to pay for the multi-billion-dollar wall along America’s southern border after his party argued against the proposal, noting that the measure is xenophobic and would strain the relationship between the two countries.

The majority of likely American voters say President Trump should stop a caravan of anywhere between 150 to 1,500 Central Americans from entering the United States, a new poll finds.

Surveillance video from a Mexico convenience store shows a man in a cowboy hat disarming an armed robber then holding him down while police are called.

The number of people killed in Mexico in the first quarter of 2018, at 7,667, is more than ten times higher than the 763 civilian deaths in war-ravaged Afghanistan during the same period, according to a Breitbart News analysis of Mexican government and United Nations data.

“Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

The European Union has negotiated a major extension to its trade deal with Mexico — proving it is capable of agreeing liberal commercial arrangements with non-members.

Police in Georgia intercepted a shipment of Disney figurines that contained 500 pounds of methamphetamine worth an estimated $2 million.

Four illegal aliens climbed the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Friday to taunt President Trump’s tough-on-immigration stance.

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland — The former Mexican President Vicente Fox let the “globalist cat out of the bag” last night at Maryland University, heaping praise on the pragmatism of the authoritarian regime in China, while blasting democracy and the will

Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, discussed immigration during an interview Wednesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak and described a 1,500-person caravan from Central America seeking entry to the U.S. as composed of “economic migrants.” He rejected characterizations of the caravaneers as refugees.

Director Morgan J. Freeman wrote in a tweet that the “egregious step” amounted to an “ego stunt” that had left him “embarrassed” to be an American.

President Donald Trump gave credit to Mexico for helping break up the illegal immigration “caravan” from Honduras to the United States.

The majority of Americans say they support President Trump threatening Mexico with tougher negotiations over the job-killing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade deal until the country’s officials help the U.S. stop illegal immigration across the southern border.

Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, discussed immigration with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesday and described the Mexican government as enabling an approaching caravan of 1,500 families from Central America seeking entry into the U.S.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson slammed the Mexican government and explained why Americans have every reason to be skeptical of claims made by that government. According to Carlson, the Mexican government’s action made that

“President Obama made changes that basically created no border,” Trump said, criticizing the “so weak and so pathetic” laws for immigration enforcement.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), during an interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Monday, advised President Donald Trump to pressure Mexico into doing its “fair share” to combat illegal immigration to the U.S. via leveraging NAFTA negotiations.

“Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen,” Trump wrote.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump went to church on Sunday to celebrate Easter.

Mexican cartels are “effectively using China to launder money,” a move that may potentially allow Beijing to establish a robust law enforcement presence in Latin America in addition to its current significant military activities in the region, an expert from U.S. Army War College warned this week.

U.S. and Mexican negotiators are using the NAFTA 2.0 talks to develop a new guest-worker program that would allow more Mexicans to work legally in the United States, Mexico’s foreign minister said in March 22 speech in California. 

President Trump celebrated what he called the “start of our Southern Border WALL” by sharing photos of a bollard fencing project in Calexico, California that has been ongoing since February.

Several reporters in Tuesday’s White House press briefing failed to get a detailed answer out of press secretary Sarah Sanders on whether President Trump is pursuing using defense department omnibus funds to build the promised southern border wall.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders emphasized that President Trump is interested in making “good” deals when asked during a Tuesday press briefing about the progress of NAFTA negotiations.

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Ann Coulter says President Trump’s border wall prototypes sitting in the San Diego, California, desert are “a ridiculous waste of time.”

Illegal immigration pouring across the United States-Mexico border is likely to rise this year, according to a Princeton University expert, as President Trump’s border wall has yet to be constructed.

The dispute highlights one thing: the trade gap between the U.S. and Canada is probably surmountable. It’s the gap with Mexico that is the real challenge.