Posted on 09/05/2016 1:14:08 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
So you want to play hardball, Mr Trump? Mexico is to consider revoking a series of treaties – including the 1848 agreement that transferred half its territory to the United States – if the Republican candidate wins the presidency and rips up the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to a Bill to be presented to Congress.
The initiative, to be proposed on Tuesday by Armando Ríos Piter, a left-wing senator, follows last week’s much-criticised meeting between Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and US presidential contender Donald Trump, which inflamed public opinion and sparked a cabinet rift. Mr Peña Nieto has faced a fierce backlash at home over what many saw as his red carpet treatment of Mr Trump, who has branded Mexicans rapists and wants to build a border wall that he insists Mexico will pay for. “This is the first step towards establishing a public policy about how Mexico should react in the face of a threat,” Mr Ríos Piter told the Financial Times.
“This [Bill] is simply to protect a successful 22-year-old relationship [Nafta] that has helped both nations,” he said. “We want to defend that from a position that seeks to destroy it. We have to put it in black and white.”
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Really! If NAFTA were at all balanced in its effects we would not see such demented desperation among Mexican politicos to try to preserve it!!!
Between them Canada and the US can feed themselves, produce enough energy to satisfy demand, and manufacture every machine and device they need. Mexico adds unneeded cheap labor. Am I missing something?
And this is a bad thing because......?
I am not seeing the downside here............none whatsoever.
Let the morons consider away!
There is not a single treaty or agreement that favors American citizens.
Or even equally beneficial to both!!
We're gonna re-Fight the MEXOCAN WAR?
“.......including the 1848 agreement that transferred half its territory to the United States”....
Let them come and TRY to take it back, NOT a good idea for them I would say.
It’s a great opportunity to gain territory for the US, right down to the Guatemala border.
OH NO PLEASE DONT THROW US INTO THE BRIAR PATCH
Would be happy to cut this parasite nation off at the knees & wall them off forever.
No thanks! The less contact we have with Mexico,and her people,the better.If I could rule this country by decree my policy would be *NO* Mexicans allowed in and *NO* trade of any kind.
I'm willing to pay more for tomatoes in January.
Good, we can stop sending them billions.
Yep—let’s start at the block level in our own neighborhoods.
I live about 50 miles from the border. Bring it on you fools! Tell ya what, we’ll even give you the board of directors of every American company that has outsourced their labor to Mexico to help fight for you, and as a bonus, you can have all the Uniparty Globalists from the United States as well!
Trump is in the way for their Aztlan Empire.
“Sounds good actually. Let’s put everything on the table. Then, Iran, then China.”
Yes, I agree.
You are going to race that honk of teen on the BAJA? Ha ha ha ha ha!
Sorry. Funny TV commercial from the pre-Arab-oil-embargo 1970s.
“including the 1848 agreement that transferred half its territory to the United States”
All you have to do is take it....a-holes.
does he mean to send our jobs back to our unemployed citizens here in America?
sounds good to me!
the wall just moved another 10 miles south.
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