Trump claims victory in tariff and immigration deal. But what did he win?
by Noah Bierman and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Jun 08, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - This is not the first time that President Donald Trump, frustrated by his inability to curb a surge of migration from Central America, has threatened Mexico with drastic punishment only to back down.
In April, he vowed to close all or large parts of the southwest border to stop people and drugs heading north, an implausible ultimatum given the nearly one million legal crossings and billions of dollars of two-way trade every day. Days later he relented, claiming Mexico had stepped up
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