White House aides reportedly told Trump that committing violence against migrants at-will is, in fact, illegal—but they did “seek a cost estimate” for the alligator-filled moat
, the president's shutdown idea was one of several he's had about how to keep immigrants off the U.S. Mexico border. Other suggestions the president has privately floated: Fortifying the border wall with electric spikes “that could pierce human flesh” and “a water-filled trench,” which would naturally be “stocked with snakes or alligators.
But Trump was most insistent about his plan to shut down the border completely, forcefully insisting that it be done by “noon tomorrow” during a March Oval Office meeting. “You are making me look like an idiot!” Trump reportedly shouted at the meeting when advisers argued against the idea, except laden with more profanity. “I ran on this. It’s my issue.
While Trump ultimately backed off of his shutdown, the chaotic week did have one major result: A Homeland Security staff. The notoriously anti-immigration adviser reportedly took the opportunity to convince Trump to oust the White House officials who were standing in Trump's way of blocking immigration, saying that “they had become part of the problem by constantly citing legal hurdles.
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