Posted on 01/08/2025 8:38:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mexico City — Hardly a day goes by here that Mexico’s president or one of her aides does not speak of some plan being devised in case President-elect Donald Trump goes through with his threats of mass deportations and punishing tariffs — testament to how vulnerable Mexico is to shifting policies in Washington.
The latest from Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum‘s administration is a “panic button” — an emergency cellphone application that will enable Mexican citizens fearing detention and deportation in the United States to alert diplomats and relatives of their plight.
Sheinbaum also says her government has bolstered staff at Mexico’s more than 50 consulates in the United States, adding advisors to provide legal counsel to those facing potential deportation.
Trump’s pronouncements have generated profound uncertainty among Mexican officials, business leaders on both side of the border and millions of Mexican immigrants in the United States.
Sheinbaum, who calls Mexican migrants “heroes,” opposes Trump’s mass-deportation plan but has been muted in her criticisms of Trump himself.
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Great! That’ll make it easier to find them.
They can use the app on the smart phones that Americans provide for them. This won’t be a thing. Meanwhile, instead of Greenland, how about a couple of miles on the other side of the Rio Grande?
The “panic button” is the fear of losing all the remittance money coming into Mexico.
Has the IRS ever audited Mexico? After all, the majority of remittances are from untaxed revenue. I figure if taxes were collected on that money it would reduce our national debt by trillions
I would guess that the millions of phones given to the mojados by our government already have a tracking app active.
This guy will want to get if for his illegal immigrant mother in law that he's so worried about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLtpLD7uhU
We should all download the app and start messing with it.
Overload the system.
...for a no-mans land minefield...
Probably done by the same people who wrote the app how to bypass the system and get into the USA.
Catholic Charities.
Trump (or Biden) can immediately deport any Mexican or Canadian who is unlawfully present in the USA.
Lock the invaders out of the US financial system.
Oh, there’s a 20% currency tax on purchases over $20 in cash.
Do you have a license to carry more than $40 in cash?
There’s a $40/week limit on cash withdrawals per Social Security number enforced by the Federal Reserve.
I’m sorry, an asylum application from that area remains pending or has been approved. It’s simply not safe to send money there. Money can’t be wired there without a Treasury license and passport.
Your asylum application has been declined since several billion dollars are wired there annually.
Make it impractical to pay the cartels for invader entry into the USA.
I really want it to open playing “Ride of the Valkyries”.
Well one of the first things Noem should do is put a stop payment on all the government supplied phones, let the illegals pay their own damn phone bills, giving them a phone all at our expense was freakin insane.
Good one. But I am also thinking for a lighter mood a song by Genesis.
How about an app that reverses direction by 180 degrees.
A "panic app" or effort to help its citizen avoid lawful action to report those illegally in the United States could be seen as an act of war.
Years ago while W was trying to invade Iraq I was saying we could be better off invading Mexico. Between the cartel activity of human trafficking, drug running & violence in our cities, the gov't corruption, pollution & problems of NAFTA & illegal immigration we could've gotten a better deal than the endless mid-east wars.
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