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		</div><p>President Donald Trump made a Thanksgiving Day threat to close the US border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost “control” on its side.</p>
<p>Mr Trump also said he has given the thousands of active-duty troops he sent to the border before the November 6 midterm elections the “OK” to use lethal force against migrants “if they have to”.</p>
<p>And he said US homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, whom he has faulted for not being tough enough on immigration, is “in there trying”.<br />
“It’s a tough job,” he said.</p>
<p>The president would not discount the possibility of a partial government shutdown early in December over politicians’ refusal to allocate the billions of dollars he is demanding for a border wall, the central promise of his 2016 campaign.</p>
<p>“Could there be a shutdown? There certainly could, and it will be about border security, of which the wall is a part,” Mr Trump said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with reporters at his Florida golf club after he conveyed holiday wishes in a telephone call with select members of the American military serving around the globe.</p>
<p>That conversation grew from a presidential expression of gratitude for their commitment to protecting the country and its interest and touched on a variety of political topics, including immigration policy, the economy and Mr Trump’s displeasure with court rulings against administration initiatives.</p>
<p>In his remarks afterwards to reporters, Mr Trump moved quickly from issue to issue, from the border and his public dispute with chief justice John Roberts to relations with China, a possible staff and Cabinet shake-up and his defence of acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker.</p>
<p>Mr Trump’s border threat came days after a federal judge put the administration’s asylum policy on hold.<br />
Under that new policy, Mr Trump declared no one could apply for asylum except at an official border entry point.</p>
<p>Some ports of entry are already facing huge backups, with people waiting for weeks.<br />
The US government shut down one port of entry, San Ysidro, in California, for several hours early on Monday morning to bolster security amid concerns about a potential influx of migrant caravan members.</p>
<p>Most of the lanes were reopened before the morning rush. Mr Trump repeated Nielsen’s claim, made earlier this week when she visited a San Diego Pacific Coast beach to see newly installed razor wire wrapped around a towering border wall that cuts across the sand, that there were as many as 500 criminals and gang members in the group heading northwards.</p>
<p>Ms Nielsen refused to answer questions about how they were identified or what crimes they had committed.<br />
Mr Trump asserted that there are “fistfights all over the streets” in Tijuana, Mexico, and that “these are not like normal, innocent people”.</p>
<p>“These are people you talk to them and they start a fistfight,” he said.<br />
“I don’t want that in this country.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_121058" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121058" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/26FEB54A-1C88-489F-9617-5FB48A459D49.jpeg"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/26FEB54A-1C88-489F-9617-5FB48A459D49.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="450" class="size-full wp-image-121058" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121058" class="wp-caption-text">Central American migrants gather at a temporary shelter, near barriers that separate Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico</figcaption></figure>
<p>The people of Tijuana “opened up with wide arms” to welcome the caravan, Mr Trump said, and “now they’re going crazy to get them out … because bad things are happening”.</p>
<p>He said if US officials “find that it’s incontrollable, if we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. The whole border.”</p>
<p>In that case, Mexico would take an economic hit, he said, citing an inability to ship cars into the US for sale.</p>
<p>“We’re either going to have a border or we’re not,” Mr Trump said.</p>
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