Posted on 11/26/2024 8:56:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has pledged to have a good working relationship with President-elect Donald Trump once he takes office, has responded to Trump's statement on November 25, 2024, in which he promised tariffs on Mexico and Canada due to their allowing illegal immigration and the flow of drugs across their borders into the United States to go unchecked.
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As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before. Right now a Caravan coming from Mexico, composed of thousands of people, seems to be unstoppable in its quest to come through our currently Open Border. On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!
Sheinbaum's response reads as follows:
I am writing to you regarding your statement on Monday, November 25, concerning migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs.
You may not be aware that Mexico has developed a comprehensive policy to assist migrants from different parts of the world who cross our territory en route to the southern border of the United States. As a result, and according to data from your country’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP), encounters at the Mexico–United States border have decreased by 75% between December 2023 and November 2024. Moreover, half of those who arrive do so through a legally scheduled appointment under the United States’ CBP One program. For these reasons, migrant caravans no longer arrive at the border.
Even so, it is clear that we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country, as well as address the root causes that compel families to leave their homes out of necessity. If even a small percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility.
On another note, and for humanitarian reasons, Mexico has consistently expressed its willingness to help prevent the fentanyl epidemic in the United States from continuing. This is, after all, a public health and consumption problem within your society. So far this year, Mexican armed forces and prosecutors have seized tons of various types of drugs, 10,340 firearms, and have detained 15,640 individuals for violence related to drug trafficking.
Furthermore, the Mexican Congress is in the process of approving a constitutional reform to classify the production, distribution, and commercialization of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs as a serious crime without bail. However, it is publicly known that the chemical precursors used to produce this and other synthetic drugs are illegally entering Canada, the United States, and Mexico from Asian countries. This underscores the urgent need for international collaboration.
You must also be aware of the illegal trafficking of firearms into my country from the United States.
Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.
President Trump, migration and drug consumption in the United States cannot be addressed through threats or tariffs. What is needed is cooperation and mutual understanding to tackle these significant challenges.
For every tariff, there will be a response in kind, until we put at risk our shared enterprises. Yes, shared. For instance, among Mexico’s main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico.
I am convinced that North America’s economic strength lies in maintaining our trade partnership. This allows us to remain competitive against other economic blocs. For this reason, I believe that dialogue is the best path to understanding, peace, and prosperity for our nations. I hope our teams can meet soon to continue building joint solutions.
An analysis of Sheinbaum’s statement reveals that while she talks a good game, she is dealing from a position of weakness. A starting point is her comment:
we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country, as well as address the root causes that compel families to leave their homes out of necessity
The root cause of why people seek to leave Mexico and other Central American countries in search of work — I speak of those seeking genuine work, not looking to sponge off the American taxpayer or profit via criminal activity — is the economic and political corruption that lies at the heart of these countries. Leaders such as El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, whose merciless assault on gangs in his country has dramatically reduced the crime rate, and Argentina's Javier Milei, who has embraced a similar war on crime, are outliers. Mexico reels daily from gang violence of the most brutal nature imaginable as rivals fight for control of the drug and sex trafficking trade.
Sheinbaum embraces a curious moment of blame-shifting.
Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.
Sheinbaum is incorrect in declaring fentanyl use is not a problem in her country. Evidence to the contrary, despite a mixture of inadequate testing and understanding about the drug's nature, states otherwise. As to the lives lost, this is the result of Mexican citizens choosing to engage in illegal activities. Americans abusing illegal drugs may be the fuel for Mexican drug wars, but they are not the fire.
Sheinbaum promises tit-for-tat tariffs should Trump go through with his plan. This is a hollow threat. There are very few, if any, products coming from Mexico that cannot be sourced from elsewhere, including the car manufacturers Sheinbaum namechecks.
One of Trump's greatest strengths is his understanding of how to get his way without forcing an opponent to lose face. Expect him and Sheinbaum to, in time, make a joint appearance together with mutual pledges regarding stopping the illegal flow of weaponry from the United States into Mexico and Mexico at least nominally toughening its border security. Donald Trump greatly prefers using the carrot over the stick. For the sake of her people, hopefully, Claudia Sheinbaum gets the hint.
US response to Mexico’s response.
We don’t care what you say you did or are doing now. IT HASN’T WORKED. TRY HARDER! Until you get your act together and STOP the mobs at our border, your goods to the US get penalty tariffs. Further, any new efforts you make will be judged as to timeliness and effectiveness and considered in any US Foreign Aid the US dispenses to Mexico.
“For every tariff, there will be a response in kind, until we put at risk our shared enterprises. Yes, shared. For instance, among Mexico’s main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico.”
Let GM and Ford build the damned cars in the USA. They’ve shut down factories and/or reduced their output at others to build south of the border. That sucks.
Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent MythAs we discussed in a previous analysis, the 90 percent number was derived from a June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico (see external link).
According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.
This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced are not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States.
Yes, most of the weapons come from South America and the deserters from the Mexican army take their weapons with them when they join the drug cartels.
I don’t think she realizes the car companies will move back home. 😉
Too funny!
It’s a man’s world. She’ll find out.
I hate to be a Debbie Downer but even if the border were closed today, there are so many folks that snuck in and are breeding like rabbits we no longer have the numbers. The penis is mightier than the sword and pen.
good gosh, this woman is wordy ... not gonna work on President Trump though: he’s gonna demand instant RESULTS, and the INITIAL 25% tariff on EVERYTHING from mexico SHOULD concentrate the mind of Mrs Kommie President Claudia Sheinbaum on obtaining said instant results ...
Ma’am, how long can your country bear a three- or four-hour inspection of every vehicle coming into the US from Mexico? President Trump can implement that with a phone call.
Suck ‘em up, lady, and stop the flow.
Typical Americans
“Not your fault, you can do no wrong, only the horrible brown people, snow Mexicans and Chyna-see are to blame. “
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear: you stand accused and God the Father is my witness. In the name of Jesus Christ I rebuke you.
Your churches are paid to bring poor people from other countries because you aborted all your children and now need new people to continue your filthy Ponzi schemes
You have filled the world with death and guns and drugs. You have aborted your children and destroyed your population with drugs and glorified violence. 600,000 missing children, held in sex slavery inside your nation. You taught your daughters to be whores and turned your sons into trannies and drug addicts.
You leave your poor and most vulnerable to rot, homeless in the streets.
Prisons overflowing. Scum “Christians” wishing anal rape on the prisoners ( because that’s what good god fearing Christians wish for as punishment on their enemies but don’t want their own penises to get covered in blood and feces).
Warmongers! Eagerly destroying country after country on the premise that there is 11 trillion in oil in Iraq. 11 trillion in minerals in Afghanistan. 11 trillion in minerals in Ukraine… while you smash their countries, kill their children and bathe in their blood singing hallelujah. All so you can STEAL their resources.
You sit bleating about injustice, but won’t lift a finger to help the J6 prisoners: each one of them far far better than you.
“Trump will save us”. “Daddy’s home and he’s pissed”. You put your faith in a single man, not God.
Absolutely sickening. The purge is coming for you old cowards and perverts. Better smash those reeking hard drives full of kiddie porn and tranny pics, bleach bit won’t cut it.
You are being destroyed because you are bottomless pits of cowardice and self loathing. You even threw your children and elderly to the wolves with The Covid and Clot shots you created and unleashed on the world.
You hide in your basements drunk, stoned, masturbating and smelling your own farts. Your invaders simply come to your towns and take them from you because you are absolutely gutless and simply throw anyone to the wolves (even your children and parents) in the hopes you will be spared from the anal rape you so fear and delight in wishing on others.
You are bankrupt and a fallen nation. All other nations are turning away from you and now you want nuclear war in the hopes that you can drag the rest of the world down into the Pit with you.
Repent you filthy perverts. May God have mercy on your souls because I for one will testify against you when you are called to account in the hereafter.
Repent. In the name of Jesus Christ, Repent!!
Best meme ridiculing her
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1861466151659651275
If she was in the United States she would have exercised her 5th amendment
To wit, she demonstrates she is a half wit:
Mexico has developed a comprehensive policy to assist migrants from different parts of the world who cross our territory en route to the southern border of the United States
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I hope the countries around the world - who would do us harm - have enjoyed their hiatus from our WINNING.
Because come January 20, the process gets restarted with a vengeance
Up till perhaps now or coming soon the Mexican govt and the cartels have profited from the illegal migrant and drug business.
It has been a win-win for those benefiting, and the people suffer.
Anyone who believed that millions could cross Mexico without the govts permission and participation are clueless or part of it.
One of the great untold or little told back stories is just how much money sent from the US by illegals and legals props up the Mexican economy.
Stop that and you will see results.
“ Mexico has developed a comprehensive policy to assist migrants from different parts of the world who cross our territory en route to the southern border of the United States”
This is how Mexico gets the “migrants” into and out of Mexico in just a few weeks. No one is walking 1000 miles in 16 days.
Democrats love slavery.
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