Posted on 02/09/2016 7:34:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón harshly criticized the notion that Mexico would pay anything for Donald Trump's planned wall on our southern border.
“Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall!” Calderón told CNBC on Saturday. “And it’s going to be completely useless.”
Calderón, who served as president from 2006 to 2012, said Trump is “not [a] very well-informed man.”
“The first loser of such a policy would be the United States,” he added. “If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade [or] for people is going to provide prosperity to the United State, he is completely crazy.”
This is not the first time Mexico has said it would not help pay for the Republican presidential contender's proposed wall.
Trump has said that he will seize cash remittances that illegal aliens send back to Mexico to pay for the wall. That won't work, either:
Would that even be possible? A Trump administration could erect a lot of legal, regulatory, and logistical obstacles to transferring money from the U.S. to Mexico. But those moves would enrage the banks and financial institutions that make money off the transfers, and probably spur interest in transfer methods that escape the attention and grasp of law enforcement.
Earlier this year, Mexico’s central bank released data indicating Mexicans abroad sent home $23.6 billion in 2014, almost all of it from the United States. Payments from workers abroad make up just 2 percent of Mexican GDP, but they can play a much bigger role in particular local economies. One study concluded that “the poorest rural areas” of the country derive 19.5 percent of their income from remittances. Whatever their economic impact, the payments are widespread:
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How about Mexico pay for refuge camps on their side of the border for all the illegal migrants sent there? They are their citizens after all.
That’s fine Senior, we will just load up a ship with every single inmate in America and run it aground deep into your Pacific Coastline and drop the door. Payback’s a b*tch!
Mexican oil is in deep decline.
The USA is the biggest producer of oil in the world, and we should keep it. At 65 bucks a barrel, which is the break even for shale I understand, I personally would suffer the price at the pump, which was bad but not that bad, to destroy the economy of that filthy corrupt bunch of jumping beans south of the border.
If “regime change” is good for Egypt, Libya, and Syria, it’s good for Mexico, too. Mr. Calderon needs to remember the videos of the last moments of Qadafi.
Hmmm. Is it nearing time for the US to go to Mexico, kill the drug cartels, overthrow the Corrupt government and Let Xpat Mexicans come home and run their country?
Name it Baja TX?
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Since Mexico thinks immigration is so great, they should allow lots of it to Mexico. Oh wait, they only think immigration of their cast-offs to the US is great, they don’t think taking the detritus of other countries into Mexico is great. At least, judging by their strict immigration laws and their strict enforcement of them, they don’t think so.
Calderón should be paying us trillions in punitive damages
Absolutely. Mexico should be a rich country with a thriving middle class and opportunity for all. It could be so prosperous that Americans could be going there for opportunity!
Instead it’s a corrupt banana republic.
I know we’re not perfect but it makes me angry to be criticized by countries as messed up as Mexico.
They won’t let in people from central and south Americas, especially from El Salvador and Guatemala.
It is worse than Apartheid-South Africa, a small European minority controls 90% of the wealth. Revolution is coming and it won't be pretty, that's why the cartels are popular with the indigenous population.
I actually have more, come to think of it, as I get to vote for the prez that might enact such measures.
Excellent point!
Eliminate the aid altogether and redirect it to the cost of providing illegals' medical and educational expenses, as well as to cover the cost of health care for American Citizens who acquire exotic and/or deadly diseases not seen in the U.S. for generations.
By the way, Caldecabron, how do you deal with Mexican fleas and head lice?
Notice the current Prez of Mexico isn’t saying anything. :-)
Unless they’re just givng them a “through ticket” to the US. They might let them come through long enough for that.
They sure do have some diverse diseases to contribute, I have noted.
Really? Last I checked, the US provides Mexico with a significant amount of foreign aid. That could always be diverted to build a wall instead.
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So the American taxpayers, from whom that aid is collected, will be paying for the wall.
That aid is not Mexico’s money, it is our money.
Yes, if we offer to remove the various payments and grants and foreign aid and other forms of support and use that cash to build a wall, who really paid for it?
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Exactly!
BTW, fences and walls have been with mankind for what, 45000 years? Our great wall is LONG OVER DUE!
That is what I was thinking; we give tons of money in the form of aid to Mexico; pull that back and some if not all of the aid we are sending to other Country’s (especially the ones who do not like us) problem solved.
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That money is from the US taxpayers.
It ain’t Mexico’s money.
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