President Donald Trump was elected in 2016 partly on a promise to build a Southern border wall to combat the relatively unchecked flow of illegal immigrants into the country and make Mexico pay for the wall.
The flow of illegal immigrants into the country only has gotten worse, and our neighbor to the South has not ponied up any money for a wall.
That could change with Trump’s announcement late Thursday that he is slapping gradually increasing tariffs on goods coming in from Mexico until the country tries to stanch the flow of bodies into the U.S.
While the tariffs wouldn’t directly pay for a wall, they could indirectly help pay for it.
Mexico has been notoriously unhelpful in keeping groups of illegal immigrants from passing through the country from Central America en route to the U.S.