Trump Threatens Financial Penalties on Mexico for Illegal Drugs, Migration

Trump Threatens Financial Penalties on Mexico for Illegal Drugs, Migration
President Donald Trump speaks with members of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as he tours the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, California on April 5, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Holly Kellum
Updated:

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said he was considering financial penalties on Mexico for the drugs that come into the United States through the border, a common route for drugs manufactured in China.

“I’m looking at an economic penalty for all of the drugs that are coming in through the southern border and killing our people,” he told reporters in Washington on his way to see the border on April 5.

Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
Holly Kellum is a Washington correspondent for NTD. She has worked for NTD on and off since 2012.
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