If they close the southern USA border, what's the worst it could happen. Can people still legally cross the border?

Question

If they close the southern USA border, what's the worst it could happen. Can people still legally cross the border?

Answer 1

Actually closing the border would be economically devastating to the US. Alot of goods travel back and forth, as do alot of legal tourists...in both directions.



Border closures like that are usually either temporary or very localized to deal with a specific issue.

Answer 2

No. A closed border means just that - closed.

Answer 3

No, no commerce or traffic across the boarder, and if we did it, Mexico would stop the caravans within 72 hours, of lost commerce.

Answer 4

Probably not. All ports of entry will close. Trucks carrying goods either way will be stopped. Auto and foot traffic for visitors to Mexico and from Mexico will not pass.

Should cost US companies several tens of millions a day. Might cost Mexico a few million also.

Answer 5

A lot of commerce will be affected. Goods and manufacturing parts (including many car parts) cross the border on a regular basis. If these are stopped then a lot of business will lose money. A lot of people also travel across the border regularly and these people's lives will be affected. Spring break is also happening, and that means a lot of student may be stuck in Mexico and cannot get back in time for school. It means GDP growth will take a hit.



Trump once again shows that he creates new problems when he tries to solve a non-existent problem.

Answer 6

If the border is closed NO ONE AND NO PRODUCTS can come or go.

Answer 7

legally...yes. illegally...no

Answer 8

It would economically destroy the drug trade.

Answer 9

The southern border doesn't need to be closed - illegals need to be stopped from sneaking in. Illegals are the ones making it difficult for those who want to immigrate to the USA.

Answer 10

Maybe for one day Trump will close his mouth and log off of Twitter

Answer 11

Mexicos economy fails. They have no money left to take care of the illegals stranded there. Or walking North. Riots & crime starts. People starve. Many will be forced to flee to Venesuala for a fresh start. The U.S. economy will grow as plants shift to war production to supply needs to keep the borer closed. Mexican tomatoes will vanish from supper markets. Most Americans in Mexico will not live to return to the U.S so no problem there.

Answer 12

Another stupid idea from Trump, Mexico is our second biggest trading partner. It would dramatically increase costs of many goods in the US.



note



"If you are thinking about a total shutdown of the border, then it's hundreds of millions of dollars a day -- maybe a billion," Duncan Wood, director of the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute, told CBS MoneyWatch. "It's an economic impossibility. Literally, the two economies would grind to a halt. Both economies are set up to depend upon cross-border trade."



Experts say the best analogy for closing the border with Mexico may be 9/11. The U.S. didn't seal the entire border after Sept. 11, 2001, instead enacting a "Level 1 Alert." That meant customs officers had to physically search every vehicle before allowing entrance.



The backlogs "had an immediate effect in places like the auto industry," he said. "In a couple of days, GM and Ford were running out of parts they needed for production."



If Mr. Trump did order the closure of the southern border, costs for imported parts and goods would quickly spike, "from TV sets to washing machines to computers to avocados. Just run down the list of stuff that Mexico exports to the U.S.," Alden said.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-president-trumps-threat-to-close-the-u-s-mexico-border-would-cost/



Mexico cannot even do what Trump wants, they cannot stop illegal immigration, They simply do not have the manpower to do it.

Answer 13

The border will never be closed for any consequential amount of time. First, Texas doesn’t want that and in Republican circles what Texas wants matters more than most.



Second, people nationwide will start to revolt when their Amazon packages start taking longer to show up because the route for Asian imports to bypass overcrowded California ports by going through Mexico and hitching a ride on a train or a truck that will go through Texas onto pretty much everywhere east of the Rockies got closed.



Basically, it’s just more of Trump being a blowhard, pandering to a bunch of angry white guys in the mid west who really don’t have any idea what goes on along our southern border.

Answer 14

Avadacos rot at the border and we pay $2.50 lb for tomatoes.

Answer 15

If the border is CLOSED then no, people cannot cross it.

Answer 16

They close the border nothing goes back and forth, like goods and workers. What don't you understand about "closed"?

Answer 17

you are back in the castle days and you will be the black hole gang again out you would ride rob Brazil then back in the safe hole again a leopard doesn't change its spots they get bigger as it grows

Answer 18

The collapse of the US auto industry, along with two dozen other major industries which rely on an integrated supply chain.



Oh and a lack of certain categories of fresh produce which long ago moved south of the border due to costs.

Answer 19

no spring break in cabo .

Answer 20

No one cares. Really. You will soon notice the people not wanted in the country suddenly gone. That's how it's done.