President Donald Trump speaks before he departs Shannon Airport, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Shannon, Ireland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Mexican-U.S. talks on President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs (all times local):
2:20 p.m.
The chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee says he will move to block President Donald Trump if Trump follows through on his threat to impose tariffs on Mexican imports as he tries to stem the flood of Central American migrants at the southern border.
Democratic Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts says the proposed 5% tariffs would hurt American workers, businesses and consumers. Neal said Trump's action "commandeering U.S. trade policy to influence border security" is an abuse of power.
He vowed to introduce a resolution of disapproval if Trump declares a national emergency and tries to impose tariffs.
Blocking the tariff would require approval in the House and Senate. It is not clear whether there is a veto-proof margin in Congress to stop Trump's action.
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12:19 a.m.
Mexican and American officials are claiming progress in White House talks to stave off President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. But Trump declared it was "not nearly enough" to halt the import taxes he is holding out as a way to force Mexico to stanch the flow of illegal migrants at America's southern border.
Talks were to resume Thursday.
Underscoring the scope of the border problem, the Department of Homeland Security announced separately that U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants illegally crossing the border hit the highest level in more than a decade in May.
Without a deal, the first tariffs are to go into effect next Monday. They would consist of 5% taxes on imports from Mexico, eventually increasing to 25%.
President Donald Trump speaks before a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, at the Shannon Airport, Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Shannon, Ireland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, listens to a question during a news conference at the Embassy of Mexico, Wednesday June 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, speaks during a news conference at the Embassy of Mexico, Wednesday June 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Military Police form up on the highway, in Metapa, Chiapas state Mexico, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. A law enforcement group of police officers, Marines, Military Police and immigration officials arrived at the area to intercept a caravan of migrants that had earlier crossed the Mexico â Guatemala border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters following the weekly policy lunches on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Hundreds of Central American migrants walk together on the highway, after crossing the Guatemala â Mexico border, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. State and local police provided a security escort to the migrants as they walked along a highway leading from the border to the first major city in Mexico, Tapachula. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, floodlights from the U.S, illuminate multiple border walls Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Congress has only a few weeks to advance an emergency funding bill to deal with the escalating humanitarian crisis at the southern border, creating a time crunch that has lawmakers on all sides alarmed. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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