President Donald Trump again took steps to seal the US-Mexico border on Thursday, guaranteeing in a tweet that America's southern neighbor is enabling unlawful workers to pass unchecked.


       US President Donald Trump
"May close the southern border?" Wrote the president.
"Mexico does NOTHING to prevent illegal immigrants from entering our country. They are all talking and no action, "he said.

"Likewise, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been taking our money for years and doing nothing. The Dems does not care, as for example the laws of the BAD. "

The new threat of closing one of the world's busiest borders and separating two countries with tremendous economic and cultural ties shows that Trump is doubling its bid to make immigration a cornerstone of the 2020 re-election campaign.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Trump's criticism and told journalists: "We are doing something about this issue."


      Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
"We will help in every possible way. We do not want any confrontation with the United States, "he said.

However, Lopez Obrador said that one solution depends on "fundamentally addressing the root causes of migration".

Trump will probably highlight the subject when he runs a campaign in Michigan on Thursday.

On Wednesday, he pointed to the need for more frontier walls to stop the "pouring of people".


"Other countries are standing there with MGs ready to shoot. We can’t do such, "he told Fox News. "We are currently building huge, many, many kilometers long walls, and we are preparing to do much more."

- "Unprecedented" -
US Department of Defense Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Wednesday that the South West border is facing "an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and border security."

The worst point is in the area of ​​El Paso, Texas, where agents have nowhere to place the large number of illegal border guards they detain.

Nationwide, the Border Agency had taken in more than 12,000 migrants this week, while half of these respondents were already classified as "crisis level".

With the agency, which would take more than 100,000 people into custody in March, this would be "the highest monthly total in a decade," the agency said.

Overall, attempts to illegally cross the border into the United States have been declining significantly for a decade or more.

However, the past year has seen a boom, and the general composition of arrivals has changed from single men to families and often to small children - making it much harder for the authorities to provide basic facilities for imprisoned migrants while their cases are decided.

Migrants are also more likely to come from Central America than just from Mexico and sometimes travel in large groups called caravans.

One of them is currently in Honduras, says Mexican Minister of the Interior Olga Sanchez Cordero. She said it could be "the" mother of all caravans "and they believe it could have more than 20,000 people."

However, Honduras Deputy Foreign Minister Nelly Jerez said there was "no indication" of such a group gathering. "We have none of this."

- Wall fight -
The last time Trump threatened to close the Mexican border was in December, when a dispute over his demand for billions of dollars in wall financing was at its peak.

The Democrats in Congress rejected the funding and argued that Trump exaggerated border issues for political reasons. In retaliation, Trump refused to sign more comprehensive spending bills, resulting in much of the federal government having to close for five weeks.

Trump at last announced the national emergency so he could sidestep the congress and open the cash - a move even denounced by many Trump Republicans.