Posted on 06/06/2019 12:23:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers
U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico’s immigration enforcement efforts and give the United States far more latitude to deport Central Americans seeking asylum, according to a U.S. official and a Mexican official who cautioned that the accord is not finalized and that President Trump might not accept it.
Faced with Trump’s threat to impose escalating tariffs on Mexican goods beginning Monday, Mexican officials have pledged to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the country’s border region with Guatemala, a show of force they say will make immediate reductions in the number of Central Americans heading north toward the U.S. border.
The Mexican official and the U.S. official said the countries are negotiating a sweeping plan to overhaul asylum rules across the region, a move that would require Central Americans to seek refuge in the first foreign country they set foot upon after fleeing their homeland.
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Does anyone remember the scene in The Terminator (I) where Kyle is in the police station and he asks, “Who’s in authority here?”
If one postulates that Mexico is a failed state ruled by an oligarchy of cartels, corporations, and regular government, one has to ask, “Who are we negotiating with? Who has power here?”
It seems pretty clear that the cartels make a ton of money by transporting people to the US border, and that the government looks the other way. Whether its out of leftist ideology (US for all) or venal corruption, doesn’t really make a difference.
Its also obvious that many of the people who are being transported don’t have the money to pay up front, and are indebted to the cartels, pledging to pay them off once they get jobs and/or welfare money. Such a pledge creates an infection of the US that’s greater than just monetary. The connection with the cartels isn’t going to go away easily or completely after payment. They have the illegal’s name, and the names of his family back home. It’s not just money... its connections, safe-passage addresses, networking... you name it.
And, I’d bet long odds that this money, much of it ultimately coming from the US taxpayer, is used to bribe American government officials as well as Mexicans.
Trump’s move with tariffs is economically stupid, but tactically necessary. You put in tariffs to protect your own industries, not as a short term punishment or club, economically speaking. But, if a patriotic President is thwarted at every turn by a corrupt and ideologically blind opposition party and judiciary, he has to use the tools that are left to him. Grassley, are you listening?
What a mess! The only thing I could see working is a serious border closing, which would involve militarization and some unpleasant incidents that the media would dramatize. Maybe declaring a health emergency, after a few large scale epidemics or terrorist incidents might tip public opinion. Clearly, random murders, overwhelmed cities, and occasional disease outbreaks don’t seem to be enough.
I think Mexico gave a copy of their counter offer to the WP so then can try to soften up Trump’s demands. I doubt this is an acceptable deal as is. Lot’s of sausage grinding left to do.
Just slow down Mexico. Congress is negotiating for you...
I’m certain that judge from Hawaii will put a block of the tariffs in 3...2...1...
Mexico has probably agreed to
becoming a “safe third country.
Something they were opposed to
in the past.
Your post cracks me up: You typed “he11” to avoid using the word “hell,” but have no problem typing “shithole” — twice. LOL.
And you ‘point’?
I saw a news flash they froze the accounts of a bunch of people today as well, the mexicans did.
Yes.
But it’s indicative of Mexico’s willingness to comply.
They are in retreat.
We will get what we want from them.
Also, Trump made the point to Mexico that its own national sovereignty is being overthrown by these floods of people from other places streaming across Mexico. And they’re not just Central Americans, but Africans and Middle Easterners who get smuggled into Central America and then cross the border and head north.
The Mexicans themselves don’t like it and I think this is actually giving AMLO cover for getting more serious about his own border enforcement.
That’s what I say. Take a summer vacation. Come back. I want those tariffs to BITE! I want to feel the fur between my jaws!
I wonder how many refugees Hawaii has taken in.
Yeah, just as I thought:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/29/less-1-us-refugees-brought-hawaii-2010-state-dept/
It’s only 5% of $135B which is nothing really but it is a good start!!!
They have at one Jap who is a senator
Sorry, Bill Paxton...
Its time to do what President Eisenhower did in the early 1950’s to curb the illegal alien problem:
Arrest a minimum of 100,000 illegals and don’t release them at the border - put them on ships and send them back to Veracruz. Confiscate ALL of their US held assets - financial accounts, cars, homes, ALL PROPERTY. Within a year, millions more illegals will self-deport.
It worked in the 1950’s and would go a LONG way to solve the illegal alien problem again today.
It’s enough, believe me. I mean it’s enough to take some bucks out of some fat cats pockets that they would otherwise have expected to be there and that will get their attention. Taking it to 10% on July 10 will make it start to HURT.
Yep.
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