Posted on 07/08/2018 5:07:03 AM PDT by richardb72
Coasting to victory on promises to reign in rampant corruption, Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sent shock waves through the Americas. Few realize that his election is likely to increase the number of low-income, low-skill illegal aliens coming to the United States.
Obrador admires Cuba and former Chilean socialist leader Salvador Allende. Venezuela’s socialist dictator Hugo Chávez helped with previous presidential campaigns by providing advisors and Venezuelan ambassador reportedly attended meetings with Obrador supporters.
While Mexican presidential candidates have long supported illegal aliens coming to the United States, Obrador’s rhetoric has been different. Instead of campaigning on the traditional promise that life in Mexico will improve so that people won’t have to leave their country, Obrador has been more direct: “We will defend… the migrants of the world who, by necessity, have to leave their villages to seek life in the United States; it is a human right that we will defend.”
Obrador’s party, The National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), has won solid majorities in both the lower and upper houses of Congress. Now, there may be no stopping this party’s radical left-wing agenda.
Just the threat of nationalizing companies will scare away foreign and domestic investment. While Obrador has promised not to increase taxes, there will surely be an increase in business regulations. Since President Trump took office, Americans have seen that attracting foreign investment increases the number of jobs, which in turn leads to higher salaries. Even before Obrador’s victory, some companies — such as Ford Motors — engaged in an about-face on planned car plants.
When the Mexican economy is faltering and the U.S. economy is booming, people get more determined to illegally cross the border. In recent decades, Cuban refugees have been desperate enough to brave shark-infested waters. Let’s hope that Mexico doesn't become yet.....
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True, and IMO we need to shutter bases in Europe and Asia and use those troops and resources to protect our Northern and Southern border.
You’re right....we should have executed the leadership we had in custody, annexed Mexico in 1848, and we wouldn’t be having this problem
As long as they stay away from breakfast and diner I can ger by. but they’ll likely start eating each other after they run out of exotic animals trapped helplessly in cages.
Best Bet. Come the socialist revolution, let the carnivores out before they run out of looted groceries ...
The US imports to Mexico about 1/3 more than we import from them. Not
sure how the problem is solved but in today’s world it is a two way street.
Well, he did promise the Mehican voters that he would “end poverty in Mehico” by exporting all of it to the U.S.
Trust me; we can get by without the help of Mexico a lot better than Mexico can get by without our help.
The only export to Mexico I’m interested in is all the illegals they have living in the USA. Fast track them out of here and we’re golden.
Better make it a double wall and twice as high.
I don’t disagree with your concept. My point is that it takes time
to get this implemented without hurting the US economy
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