BORDER/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Friday [4-5-19] he is considering an economic penalty apart from tariffs to counter the smuggling of drugs from Mexico across the southern U.S. border. ‘Likewise I am looking at an economic penalty for the 500 Billion Dollars in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and smuggled through Mexico and across our Southern Border,’ Trump said in a Twitter post as he prepared to leave the White House for a two-day trip that will include a visit to the border.”
–Doina Chiacu, “Trump: looking at economic penalty for drugs coming from Mexico,” Reuters, April 5, 2019 6:35 am