Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, told Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" on Monday that the president's threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border are a way "to pressure everybody" into taking action to limit illegal immigration.
"This is something that needs a solution, and one of the things I love about the president is, he doesn't let people hide from problems," Kushner told host Laura Ingraham. "When there's a problem, he makes people confront the problem and he's very creative about ways that he'll look to find a solution."
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Trump has threatened to close the southern frontier as soon as this week if Mexico does not "immediately stop" a surge of migrants flooding into the U.S. illegally. In a tweet Sunday, Trump accused Democrats of "allowing a ridiculous asylum system and major loopholes to remain as a mainstay of our immigration system."