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Mexico's foreign affairs secretary pushes back against Trump: "We will never pay for a wall"
The Hill ^ | 08/28/18 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 08/28/2018 3:06:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t care if Mexico pays for a wall. I just want the Wall.


21 posted on 08/28/2018 3:53:55 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Secret Agent Man

Its such a great place full of great, moral people.
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I have no doubt this was meant as sarcasm.

Fact is, most of the common people of Mexico ARE “great, moral people”, as are those in Central America. Those seen most in the US and the media are corrupt politicians, drug traffickers, gang scumbags and illegal aliens. The majority of people south of the border are none of those.

A great majority of Latinos are NOT clamoring to get across the border into the US “Promised Land”. The majority also are not into dope, nor are they MS-13 gang members. They’re not much different from you or your neighbors; they work their butts off to survive and provide for their families, they have barbecues and a cold beer on holidays, they dance, watch futbol,they shop at supermarkets and convenience stores, and many attend Mass on Sundays. The stereotype is a media-created image which has little in common with reality.


22 posted on 08/28/2018 3:58:09 PM PDT by Gideon300
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To: yesthatjallen

Deport, deport, deport.


23 posted on 08/28/2018 4:06:03 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Roger that. It would not surprise me if our POTUS does exactly that. And after the wall is amortized, keep the 5% in place to at least partially defray all the freebies the sponges have soaked up for many decades, and will continue to do.


24 posted on 08/28/2018 4:25:01 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yup they follow the 11th commandment
Thou Shalt Steal


25 posted on 08/28/2018 4:27:20 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: yesthatjallen

We will see.


26 posted on 08/28/2018 4:33:15 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: yesthatjallen

this story is being pushed today to counter the trade deal success.


27 posted on 08/28/2018 4:35:27 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.tand http://www.house.gov)
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To: yesthatjallen
Mexico may never admit you're paying for it, but one way or another, they will pay for the wall.

Like a fee of $10 per person fee to cross the border into the US. Given the number of vehicles backed up at legal entry points every day we'd be paying for a mile or more of wall every day.

Trucking companies would add it to their bills so make it part of the law enacting the fee that the bill from the trucking company has to break out and identify that fee as a separate line item and waive the fee for US owned and operated trucking companies that use US citizen drivers.

The cost of the driver is no big deal but adding that waiver is a nice touch to make it clear to the Mesicans who is and who isn't paying for the wall.

28 posted on 08/28/2018 4:44:40 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Gideon300
True.. Its like any other country, race, religion, etc.. Most Hispanics where I live are sweet as pie and family oriented. What I like most is they are not PC!
I was in Petsmart the other day and a Mexican family was dressing up their Chihuahua in a Halloween costume.. Yes.. a poncho and sombrero! It was so freakin' adorable! They posed for a photo and I posted it on Flickr. Well.. It scared just about all of my usual Flickr friends who comment on my photos.. Only two posted comments. Sad.
29 posted on 08/28/2018 4:45:58 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Celerity

wonder why trump hasn’t moved on this?


30 posted on 08/28/2018 4:46:03 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: yesthatjallen
$10 landing tax on every non-US citizen at every fight originating from Mexico and $1 from every vehicle crossing the border. Add $5 for every visa application.

It will get paid for by Mexico and Mexicans.

31 posted on 08/28/2018 5:11:22 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Tax remittances at 5% and they’ll pay for it.”

That figure is far too low! Particularly for those who “work off the books” and don’t pay US Income Taxes. When these pinche chilons show up to send their ill-earned money home, the remitting agency should be required by Federal Tax Law, to have 50% of the remittance withheld and forwarded to the IRS. To those who somehow have a TIN, take at least 10% and report the transaction to the IRS. I’d set up a group of agents within the IRS to “visit” local Mexican Markets, where the bulk of the remittances are transacted, and “review their records.”


32 posted on 08/28/2018 5:24:59 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: plain talk
Not sure how that can be measured and monitored.

Wouldn't surprise me if the IRS volunteered. Friggin POS.

33 posted on 08/28/2018 5:28:18 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Gideon300

“Fact is, most of the common people of Mexico ARE “great, moral people”, as are those in Central America.”

What a pantload! Yeah, I will grant you that Hispanics are in the main, hardworking people, and they do do jobs here that both whites and blacks shun. That, however, does not absolve them of breaking into our country, and taking far more than they produce. Also, remittances to their “home countries,” are financial drag on our economy. That money needs to stay here and be put back into our economy. It is just another way that they steal from the American citizens.


34 posted on 08/28/2018 5:29:23 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: yesthatjallen

El no puede admitirlo en publico

(He can’t admit it in public)


35 posted on 08/28/2018 5:43:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It would be awesome if Trump helps Mexico be great again. It’s a beautiful country with a great history and culture. In a perfect world we would be terrific friends and neighbors.

Sadly their corrupt leaders messed Mexico up.


36 posted on 08/28/2018 5:48:37 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tax remittances at 5% and they’ll pay for it.””

Trump DID place a 5% fee/tax on all the remittances going south.

It needs to be 50%.

Maybe this guy doesn’t know bout the 5%???


37 posted on 08/28/2018 6:20:37 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: arthurus

Trump already has done that-— a 5% tax.


38 posted on 08/28/2018 6:21:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Let's Roll

Great idea


39 posted on 08/28/2018 6:43:14 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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“Fact is, most of the common people of Mexico ARE “great, moral people”, as are those in Central America.”

What a pantload! Yeah, I will grant you that Hispanics are in the main, hardworking people, and they do do jobs here that both whites and blacks shun. That, however, does not absolve them of breaking into our country, and taking far more than they produce. Also, remittances to their “home countries,” are financial drag on our economy. That money needs to stay here and be put back into our economy. It is just another way that they steal from the American citizens.
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Well...that’s pretty much the reaction I expected. I’m not going to argue that my post isn’t a “pantload”, but if you had taken time to read it you would have noticed I wasn’t referring to the Mexicans and Latinos in the US. I was saying the common people IN Mexico and the common people IN Central America who have NO desire to come to the US, legal or otherwise, are mostly good and decent people.

Otherwise, I agree with nearly all you just said. I cannot understand why these illegal aliens, and notice I DID say “illegal ALIENS”, should ever have been allowed in the US in the first place. I’m not arguing with you there. Immigration should be exactly according to the laws in place, with no exceptions. Some are there out of desperation, some just to get a free ride. Others are genuine criminals looking for easier pickings. All illegals are there as a tool for Democrat votes.

As far as sending money back to relatives in “the home country”, if someone is in the US legally and working legally they can do whatever they like with the money they earn. The illegals sending money out of the country should never have been there anyway.

By the way, most of the Mexicans and Latinos I’ve known who live IN Latin America and have no desire to come take your job and disrupt the US economy AGREE WITH YOU! If this is another “pantload”, so be it. I stand by what I know and have personally seen.


40 posted on 08/28/2018 7:51:17 PM PDT by Gideon300
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