Trump considers closing southern border to migrants

By By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering taking executive action to bar migrants, including asylum-seekers, from entering the country at the southern border, according to people familiar with the plan. The effort would be the starkest indication yet of Trump’s election-season push to play to his anti-immigrant base as his party fights to keep control of Congress.
The proposal amounts to a sweeping use