Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday that he could impose tariffs on countries, including China, that do not stem the flow of undocumented immigrants from its territory to the United States, if he wins the US election in November.
Trump made these statements at an event in the border state of Arizona, an electoral battleground, while answering a question from the public and did not specify the magnitude of the tariffs he would impose in that scenario.
Asked how he would stem the flow of immigrants crossing illegally into the United States, Trump said, “We have tremendous economic power,” adding that if a country like China doesn’t help stem the flow of immigrants into the United States, “we have these things.” called tariffs”.
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The presidential candidate added that he hoped he would not have to resort to tariffs to curb illegal immigration, but warned that if other countries do not help reduce it, then he could “impose tariffs on that country” if he is re-elected.
Border security and immigration have become the main issues that concern Americans on the eve of the November 5 elections, in which Trump will face the US president, Democrat Joe Biden, in a rematch of the race for the 2020 White House.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Tim Reid in Washington; Editing in Spanish by Héctor Espinoza)
