IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump threatened to make Mexican immigration control a condition of a new NAFTA agreement on Monday [4-23-18], saying the southern U.S. neighbor must stop illegal immigrants from getting into the United States…The U.S. president made similar comments linking NAFTA, an acronym for the North American Free Trade Agreement, and immigration when a ‘caravan’ of migrants moved through Mexico this month. ‘They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA,’ Trump wrote in an April 1 Twitter post. However, discussion of immigration controls has not been a part of formal negotiations on the new NAFTA accord and talks by all accounts – including Trump’s – are progressing.”
-Doina Chiacu, “Trump says may tie Mexican immigration control to NAFTA,” Reuters, April 23, 2018 7:14 am