Trump Threatens Tariffs on Countries That Don’t Accept Migrants

Former President Donald Trump threatened large tariffs on countries that don’t accept deported migrants, suggesting that his immigration and trade policy could become closely intertwined if he returns to the White House.

“The countries will accept them back, and if they don’t accept them back we do no trade with those countries and we charge them big tariffs,” Trump said Thursday at an event in Montezuma Pass, Arizona.

Immigration remains a cornerstone of Trump’s reelection pitch. He has pledged to complete the construction of a wall along the entire border and to carry out the largest deportation effort in US history. Polls indicate that a majority of Americans support curbing immigration.

He’s also made imposing large tariffs on both adversaries and allies a key portion of his economic policy. He’s even suggested he would like to raise enough money from import levies that he could drastically reduce income taxes, a major upheaval to how the US generates revenue to fund the government that would have widespread costs on consumer goods.

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