Donald Trump Declares He Will Increase Tariffs on Mexico Until Illegal Immigration Remedied

Breitbart ^ | 01-06-19 | MICHELLE MOONS

[Steve1999]

President Donald Trump made good on a promised immigration announcement Thursday night, proclaiming he will increase tariffs on Mexico. “On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP,” President Trump wrote in a Thursday night tweet.“The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,” the president said and continued in a subsequent post, “….at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow.”

[Jmouse007]

Fine, I stand corrected, however I still stand by what I posted. This is still nothing but talk and Kabuki theater until ACTION is taken culminating in RESULTS.

Every month President Trump talks and threatens about a new this or that, and so far NOTHING HAS CHANGED. In fact the problem is exponentially worse. OVERY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE INVADING THE COUNTRY EVERY MONTH!

The president should have declared a national emergency, completely militarized the border, federalised the National Guard and entirely closed the border MONTHS AGO.

Trump allowed himself to get rolled by the DEMON RATS into allowing illegals with children to stay and now it is totally out of control. The cartels are buying or stealing children and saying they are a family so America MUST let them in... and we are. Not only that, you are paying to fly these disease ridden, law breaking illegals all over the country to be dropped off into our communities BY THE THOUSANDS EVERY MONTH!

Yeah, everything’s “peachy”! So what if America is being permanently destroyed from within before our very eyes; President Trump is doing a bang up job on the economy. Sarcasm off. Tagline

[marajade]

The President of Mexico has requested an immediate meeting with Trump. You knew that too, right?

[Busko]

This would be better, have a military exercise on the border. All branches, run it along the Rio Grande and even have special forces involved!

[central_va]

If you are against tariffs then you lose all rights to complain about the budget deficit.

[central_va]

Yes, tariffs a good idea on their own.

[Poison Pill]

Yes, tariffs a good idea on their own.

Yeah, just like snake oil. It cures, well.........everything!

[Lurkinanloomin]

We will never Make America Greta Again by re-electing the same Bush League Republicans that have been incentivizing illegal aliens to come for the amnesty they keep dangling as bait.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Good job!

[wildcard_redneck]

“He should also expel their ambassador until they do what needs to be done.”

And force the closure of the 51 Mexican Consulates (Consulados) in the U.S. and expel their staff as well.

[RideForever]

The list goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population)
7) demonstrate English proficiency to acquire citizenship and pass civics test.

Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to self-deport.

Also consider reciprocation of the laws of the countries of origin of the illegal aliens. For example, Mexico doesn’t allow land ownership or voting to immigrants, and doesn’t honor birthright citizenship like its citizens expect from the U.S. We should offer the same deal to them.

[gathersnomoss]

Well thought out, and logic driven.

Therefore, don’t bet on it.

[rainee]

Trump putting on the squeeze, slowly.
Remittances should be next..then watch them squeal.

[central_va]

Tariffs are consumption based tax that promotes and protects US industry. As such only a traitor would be against them.

[Bratch]

Mexican President Lopez-Obrador Asks for Emergency Meeting Friday…

Posted on May 31, 2019 by sundance

AMLO knows there is no way for Mexico to begin retaliating against the U.S. after President Trump demanded they step-up migration travel enforcement or face U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports.  There’s no way for Mexico to take on Trump economically; and they would be foolish to try…  All business interests in Mexico will take a financial hit as soon as the stock market opens tomorrow: [Tweet Link]

No doubt Mexican Foreign Minister Jesus Seade will reach out to Jared Kushner for relief/assistance; but don’t look for President Trump to change on this issue until he sees substantive actions taking place.  Trump knows AMLO has a tendency to play political games with immigration; he’s made hollow promises before; and now Jesus Seade is in a very tenuous position.

(Reuters) […] The announcement rattled investors who feared that worsening trade frictions could hurt the global economy. The Mexican peso, U.S. stock index futures and Asian stock markets tumbled on the news, including the shares of Japanese automakers who ship cars from Mexico to the United States.

“We’re in a good moment building a good relationship (with the United States) and this comes like a cold shower,” said Mexico’s deputy foreign minister for North America, Jesus Seade.

U.S. officials said 80,000 people are being held in custody with an average of 4,500 arriving daily, overwhelming the ability of border patrol officials to handle them.A senior White House official said Trump was particularly concerned that U.S. border agents apprehended a group of 1,036 migrants as they illegally crossed the border from Mexico on Wednesday. Officials said it was the largest single group since October.

[…] Mexico’s Seade said it would be disastrous if Trump goes through with his threat to impose the tariffs. Calling Trump’s move “extreme,” Seade said a normal response would be for Mexico to “mirror” the U.S. tariffs but that would lead to a trade war.

[…] White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, asked in a conference call with reporters which products from Mexico could be affected by the tariffs, said: “All of them.”

Mulvaney added, “This is an urgent problem. We are interested in seeing the Mexican government act tonight, tomorrow.”

Shares in Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co and Honda Motor Co all fell around 3% or more, while Mazda Motor Co fell nearly 7%. All four automakers operate vehicle assembly plants in Mexico.  (read more)

FLASHBACK June 2018 …  Interestingly, people now started to take notice because AMLO is openly telling his fellow countrymen they must flood the U.S. border.

(From the Daily Caller) […] “And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”  He then declared it as “a human right we will defend.”

Most political observers read this and think it sounds crazy. They make comparisons to a U.S. presidential candidate telling Americans to flee to Canada (Daily Wire example). That type of perspective shows a disconnect.  The paradigm, and frame of reference, is entirely wrong.

What AMLO was saying in 2018 was not a surprise, nor is it an ideological proclamation; there is an actual strategic policy behind these statements.  This has been AMLO’s strategy for years, and no-one was paying attention.   Andrés Manuel López Obrador has long proposed a key economic plan for Mexico to become wealthy. However, his idea has only recently gained broad mainstream Mexican understanding.

Conservative U.S. media have no idea; but Democrats, activists and far-left immigration radicals certainly do. AMLO has thought this through, and he has seen the mistakes made by allies in Cuba and Venezuela.

AMLO has an economic plan where hundreds-of-thousands of his fellow Mexicans flood the Southern U.S. border region; overwhelm the system and essentially create an initial border economy; then, with the door and pathway created, begin a process of exfiltration of U.S. economic wealth directly into Mexico.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not crazy; he has a pretty ingenious strategy.

Through overwhelming the Southern border regions, the nation of Mexico will be able to influence local U.S. laws and overwhelm the local U.S. political structures.  The Ameri/Mex zone penetrates into the U.S. and provides a borderless opening for migration, trade, commerce and the education of Mexican citizens through the utilization of U.S. social and economic systems.

All of the long-held grievances of Mexican nationals toward the disparity of their level of poverty and the wealth within the United States can be fixed through this plan.

Within the plan AMLO envisions the U.S. training, educating, employing and eventually paying for a growing standard-of-living for Mexico.  It is a fast way for Mexico to gain wealth; as opposed to the long process of building out an entire societal system of education, investment, infrastructure and commerce.

It would take Mexico several decades to achieve a level of wealth even close to the U.S., and they have no structural (political) systems in place to form the foundation of such an approach.  So, AMLO’s faster plan is to use migration into the U.S. to break down barriers, collapse the economic dam and allow the natural flood of U.S. wealth to flow into Mexico.

From the Mexican perspective this is a pretty solid economic approach that just might work; and they have open-border comrades within the progressive, democrat, republican and corporate political systems (all over the U.S) who already support such a strategy.

So when you see the headlines about the Mexican President telling his people to leave; and when you see him telling government officials to formulate plans and policies to expedite entry into the U.S., don’t laugh them away.  It is a viable plan with just as much possibility of success as any other.

 

[Poison Pill]

Tariffs are consumption based tax that promotes and protects some US industry.

As such only a traitor would be against them.

Convenient for you that a traitor is anyone who disagrees with, well......you.

[central_va]

The tariff will cause inflation. So what. I doubt quantity of product shipped in would change at all. Tariffs in the USA are treated like the plague yet EVERY OTHER COUNTRY USES THEM TO OUR DISADVANTAGE.

[central_va]

....Said the Free Traitor™. We are in a war against globalists and I see what side you are on.

[Poison Pill]

Again with the circular reasoning.

[Boogieman]

“STOP letting immigrants have a free ride atop your trains.
That’s not all that hard to enforce.”

Hehe, just build a few low viaducts for the trains to pass under...

[central_va]

Just slam on the brakes and watch the wet backs go airborne!