Sure looks like it.
If I were Trump, I would urge corporations to invest in Mexico too.
There’s no problem with good economic activity on both sides of the border.
We should address it as helping our friend to the South.
We could pull Mexico out of it’s poverty, and win a lot of support from it’s citizens.
Our companies could reap big profits, and re-invest here and there.
There’s no reason the U.S. and Mexico can’t prosper here.
There’s no reason any country in the world can’t prosper.
But the problem has and always will be that countries are run by humans, and when you’re in charge of millions of people you tend to have a lot of a power. Which corrupts tons of people.
“We could pull Mexico out of it’s poverty,”
Not a chance. Not while their national euro-descended oligarchy, and their unique version of Catholicism are both benefiting from keeping the masses ignorant and in poverty are changed.
The problems in Mexico are deep inside it’s operating system. It’s not that they lack opportunity. As a nation they possess oil and gas,, access to the Atlantic and Pacific, every mineral known to man, timber, fine farmland, a solid if uneducated workforce, no threat of external invasion or war, Gold, Silver, you name it.
The reason they are constantly poor is the two pillars of their society.
I would imagine Trump may do something like that - he’s not against another country prospering, just having them proper as a welfare program paid for by the American People.