For example, Flake said around 10,000 people are crossing legally into the United States every morning through Yuma, a border city in Arizona. These people are working for the fields growing fresh produce.
Flake said, “You have 10,000 people who could not come and work for the fields. Many of them, up to a quarter…are U.S. citizens.” He said that’s what’s going to happen if Trump will close the entire southern border.
Flake thinks partial government shutdown will last until mid-January
The border wall funding is a major contention between Trump and the Democrats and the primary reason for the ongoing partial government shutdown. Flake believes the shutdown will extend until next year. In fact, he thinks it will last “a couple of weeks after the Senate and the House reconvene on the third” of January. He estimated that the shutdown will stretch until the middle of January.
“Fortunately, only a quarter of the federal government, it’s not a full shutdown but it’s still significant particularly for those who aren’t getting paid…It’s a bad thing. It shouldn’t be happening at all. My guess is, it will go ‘til mid-January and they’ll settle on some figure close to $1.6 billion what was offered or close to what was offered already. And both sides will declare victory somehow and move on,” said Flake.
