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On Mexico border, Republican business owners oppose Trump's tariff threat
Reuters ^ | 06-09-19 | Tim Reid

Posted on 06/09/2019 2:52:08 PM PDT by Steve1999

SAN LUIS, Ariz. (Reuters) - A lifelong Republican, Russ Jones supports President Donald Trump and agrees he needs to take action to deal with an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico.Jones also has a customs brokerage business to run, however, and says Trump’s lingering threat to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico unless its government stems the flow of Central American migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible policy. Trump, infuriated by a surge of illegal immigrants in recent months, had threatened to impose a 5% tariff on Mexican imports starting on Monday, and steadily increase it to 25% in coming months, unless Mexico acted to stop what he describes as an invasion.

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1 posted on 06/09/2019 2:52:08 PM PDT by Steve1999
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Maybe it's easy for me to say, but I think of the Founding Fathers (most of whom were quite rich) and all that they risked (and lost) when seeking liberty. These businessmen claim to like the country and claim to like Trump, but for too many of them the bottomline is "I don't want to lose any money over this ..."

I don't respect that position.

2 posted on 06/09/2019 2:56:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Steve1999

HATE media spends all day every day finding crap to bash Trump with.


3 posted on 06/09/2019 2:56:34 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Steve1999

The Mexicans caved, so just exactly is the point of this article?


4 posted on 06/09/2019 2:58:47 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Covfefe Trump!)
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To: All

Another attempt to demoralize Trump supporters.


5 posted on 06/09/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Steve1999

The MSM leftard reporter found a few fake “republicans” and made another anti-Trump article. How nice..


6 posted on 06/09/2019 3:01:22 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards from our company since 2008 and did so happily. I hope all libs die.)
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To: Steve1999

Are all the businessmen suffering jaundice and brain damage?

Yellow and stupid which is sad.

Fearing losing money? Like the 100B+the jobs stolen, resources leeched etc. from those illegal aliens? If they fail due to the tariffs it probably means they’re too invested in having illegal aliens as customers or even employees.


7 posted on 06/09/2019 3:02:12 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Steve1999

The threat is over so be happy and hope Mexico lives up to its word.


8 posted on 06/09/2019 3:03:55 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Steve1999

Get Stuffed ,Trump Won


9 posted on 06/09/2019 3:12:23 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

Agree totally, what it is costing America no where compares with his dollar loss.


10 posted on 06/09/2019 3:13:30 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well that makes you a good American because WTF is wrong with these people that won’t give up anything for country?!?!?

There was PIECES of a billion different kids on the beaches of Normandy.

I’m QUITE sure they didn’t WANT To be in PIECES at 18 and 19 and 20!!!

They didn’t have careers to make a fortune in. They didn’t have wives and they didn’t have kids and grandkids and houses.

They didn’t get to grow to middle age and b.tch about nonsense (a crime I commit often).

They gave EVERYTHING and I when I say everything I mean mother ####ING EVERYTHING.

Kids.

For us. Babies, middle aged, Their age, women, men, rich, poor, business owners 2000 miles away from the border and business owners right next to the border.

AND THEY DIDN’T DO IT SO SOROS AND THE NWO AND THIRD RATE CITIZEN AND GOVTS FROM SH.THOLE COUNTRIES COULD RUIN THE COUNTRY THEY FOUGHT FOR.

Maybe these business should put some pics of D Day up in the businesses.

It might remind them of what being an American is actually all about.


11 posted on 06/09/2019 3:15:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Steve1999

Hey Russ you old fool, that “terrible policy” just worked.

And to the writer, Tim Reid, you bigger old fool, there’s a lot more than just Donald J. Trump infuriated by a surge of illegal immigrants in recent months... Millions and millions of us!


12 posted on 06/09/2019 3:22:15 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nekked RINOS left out in the cold = shrinkage, revealing small men.


13 posted on 06/09/2019 3:24:03 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Steve1999

Our nation’s sovereignty is more important than this guy’s extra buck off of our exported jobs.


14 posted on 06/09/2019 3:25:27 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Steve1999
A lifelong Republican

Even Robert Mueller is a “Republican”. Viva la GOPee.

15 posted on 06/09/2019 3:26:08 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ClearCase_guy

Whenever you hear “I love my country and I support the President...BUT...”

you know you’re dealing with a phony to whom all the above comes second to his self interest.


16 posted on 06/09/2019 3:28:17 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Steve1999

Tim Reid is life-long lying nard-less scumbag Commie.

So that kind of balances things out.


17 posted on 06/09/2019 3:28:50 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: HenpeckedCon

The point, as always,to severely wound. These little men use pencils rather than knives or arrows to do so.


18 posted on 06/09/2019 3:29:02 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: tiki

I can’t believe they were stupid enough to think Mexico wasn’t going to give in, the Mexican economy had way more to lose. Mexican officials knew Trump wasn’t bluffing either. Good negotiating tactic


19 posted on 06/09/2019 3:30:27 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Steve1999

All of a sudden the MSM cares what Republican business owners think.


20 posted on 06/09/2019 3:32:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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