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    As Trump threatens to close border, experts warn of billions in economic damage

    by Molly O'Toole, Noah Bierman and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Apr 02, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - When the Trump administration abruptly shuttered the San Ysidro border crossing for five hours on the Sunday after Thanksgiving following a skirmish with a group of migrants, holiday traffic snarled for hours south of San Diego.

    Businesses on the U.S. side of the border lost about $5.3 million in sales, local officials said. Tens of thousands of people were temporarily stuck on both sides of the border, creating chaos in nearby areas.

    President Donald Trump now is threatening to exponentially increase the scale of that disruption, vowing to indefinitely close the U.S. border with Mexico to show his resolve - and his pique - as tens of thousands of Central

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