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On Mexico border, Republican business owners oppose Trump's tariff threat
Reuters ^ | 06-09-19 | Tim Reid

Posted on 06/09/2019 2:52:08 PM PDT by Steve1999

SAN LUIS, Ariz. (Reuters) - A lifelong Republican, Russ Jones supports President Donald Trump and agrees he needs to take action to deal with an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico.Jones also has a customs brokerage business to run, however, and says Trump’s lingering threat to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico unless its government stems the flow of Central American migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible policy. Trump, infuriated by a surge of illegal immigrants in recent months, had threatened to impose a 5% tariff on Mexican imports starting on Monday, and steadily increase it to 25% in coming months, unless Mexico acted to stop what he describes as an invasion.

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To: Steve1999

Dear Mr. Russ Jones,

Please listen closely - FU. If you can’t get with the program to put this country back on the right track, I most sincerely hope your business fails spectacularly, and that you and your family wind up in a homeless shelter.

P.S. - You’re not a conservative, so stop pretending.


21 posted on 06/09/2019 3:34:05 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: dp0622

Well said.


22 posted on 06/09/2019 3:34:29 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dp0622

There was PIECES of a billion different kids on the beaches of Normandy.

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Here’s a sobering description of the carnage on D-Day:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-06/churchill-ike-epic-human-tragedy-first-wave-omaha


23 posted on 06/09/2019 3:34:35 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Well said.

Profits are OK, but not at the expense of principles.


24 posted on 06/09/2019 3:36:07 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: ClearCase_guy
Maybe it's easy for me to say, but I think of the Founding Fathers (most of whom were quite rich) and all that they risked (and lost) when seeking liberty. These businessmen claim to like the country and claim to like Trump, but for too many of them the bottomline is "I don't want to lose any money over this ..." I don't respect that position.

Partner, you said exactly what the Freeper nation is thinking right now.

We hope folks know that the Mexicans do not like us one bit and neither do the other folks in Central America!

25 posted on 06/09/2019 3:37:28 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: Starboard; dp0622
There was PIECES of a billion different kids on the beaches of Normandy.

Partner, so true and these guys are complaining because the Mexicans do not like us.

26 posted on 06/09/2019 3:40:57 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: max americana

YEP, these republicans that they found are republicans just like George Will, and Mittens NOT really republicans at all!!!!


27 posted on 06/09/2019 3:44:06 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Starboard

SMH.

It doesn’t seem possible that once upon a time that was the best we could do for our men in clearing the LZ.

It was a death march. Or crawl.

It’s almost too hard to read.

And somewhere thousands of miles away, too many mothers’ hearts to count were broken to pieces.


28 posted on 06/09/2019 3:52:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: TheConservativeTejano; Lurkinanloomin

I feared immediately that my Italian emotions and sometimes too straightforward NY commenting may have offended the memories of these boys.

I had no such intent.

But if one really tries to close their eyes and immerse themselves in what our guys were seeing and doing and having done to them, then there’s no other way to describe it.

And the beginning of certain movies, Like Private Ryan, should be required viewing in all schools.

God bless all of their souls.

They were to a man, even as kids, better men than me.


29 posted on 06/09/2019 3:56:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: TheConservativeTejano

We hope folks know that the Mexicans do not like us one bit and neither do the other folks in Central America!
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We DO know that, we have all experienced the attitude from illegal aliens in all 50 states by now.

What we DO NOT understand is why Bush League Republicans like Flimsey Grahamnesty and Micro Rubio keep trying to make them citizens after they broke in and broke more laws every day after breaking in.

We really have to start electing better Republicans.


30 posted on 06/09/2019 4:03:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: HenpeckedCon

The Mexicans did not “cave” on this issue, they had a “come to Jesus” moment in which the whole issue of illegal immigration, to which they had been turning a blind eye, was going to bite them in the Gluteus Maximus in a really big way, if they failed to act.

The point of the article was, by whatever straw they could grasp at, the media was throwing mud and pebbles at the Trump Administration. The straws were of just too little in quantity and value to rescue the media from themselves, and they are left floundering, their feeble attempts were proven futile.


31 posted on 06/09/2019 4:15:30 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: Steve1999

When I was living in Houston, the business owners were very critical of the changes brought about by NAFTA.


32 posted on 06/09/2019 4:16:53 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Steve1999

Shame he wasn’t a life-long patriot...


33 posted on 06/09/2019 4:48:58 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: HenpeckedCon
The Mexicans caved

How do you know?

34 posted on 06/09/2019 5:13:34 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: dp0622
There was PIECES of a billion different kids on the beaches of Normandy.

So, someone has a difference of opinion with you on a political issue and you claim they are dishonoring the memory of dead D-Day vets? Get bent.

35 posted on 06/09/2019 5:22:46 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Poison Pill; BenLurkin; laplata; nopardons; fieldmarshaldj; Farmer Dean; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

Poison Pill, does ANYONE besides you still use “get bent”? :)

YOU REALLY think the shopkeepers are taking a BIGGER HIT that the men that have died for this country??

That’s not a difference of opinion. That’s outright insanity. Which I’ve known you had a proclivity towards anyway.

How you survive on this board is incredible

You provide NO INSIGHT, NOTHING BUT INSULTS, a VERY WEAK intellectual view, and yet you are still here.

I NEVER give a #### how many folks here know what I think.

I sleep well either way.

How about you?

Does ANYONE still use “get bent”? :)


36 posted on 06/09/2019 5:32:03 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

I’ve heard people use that on the interwebs. “Get bent” still sounds kinda gay.


37 posted on 06/09/2019 5:36:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: dp0622
does ANYONE besides you still use “get bent”?

I wouldn't know. Unlike you I don't worry about what the crowd is doing.

How you survive on this board is incredible

Well, if it bothers you that much, why don't you go run off and report me to mommy.

38 posted on 06/09/2019 5:44:25 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: dp0622

Obviously little nobodies who jump onto a thread, reply to a post NOT directed to them, and then post something off topic, stupid, irrelevant, and snotty because they are incapable of debate.


39 posted on 06/09/2019 6:04:55 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Steve1999

ME, ME, ME!!!


40 posted on 06/09/2019 6:05:57 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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