Posted on 06/07/2019 7:53:56 PM PDT by Brown Deer
The United States and Mexico met this week to address the shared challenges of irregular migration, to include the entry of migrants into the United States in violation of U.S. law. Given the dramatic increase in migrants moving from Central America through Mexico to the United States, both countries recognize the vital importance of rapidly resolving the humanitarian emergency and security situation. The Governments of the United States and Mexico will work together to immediately implement a durable solution.
As a result of these discussions, the United States and Mexico commit to:
Mexican Enforcement Surge
Mexico will take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular migration, to include the deployment of its National Guard throughout Mexico, giving priority to its southern border. Mexico is also taking decisive action to dismantle human smuggling and trafficking organizations as well as their illicit financial and transportation networks. Additionally, the United States and Mexico commit to strengthen bilateral cooperation, including information sharing and coordinated actions to better protect and secure our common border.
Migrant Protection Protocols
The United States will immediately expand the implementation of the existing Migrant Protection Protocols across its entire Southern Border. This means that those crossing the U.S. Southern Border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to Mexico where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims.
In response, Mexico will authorize the entrance of all of those individuals for humanitarian reasons, in compliance with its international obligations, while they await the adjudication of their asylum claims. Mexico will also offer jobs, healthcare and education according to its principles.
The United States commits to work to accelerate the adjudication of asylum claims and to conclude removal proceedings as expeditiously as possible.
Further Actions
Both parties also agree that, in the event the measures adopted do not have the expected results, they will take further actions. Therefore, the United States and Mexico will continue their discussions on the terms of additional understandings to address irregular migrant flows and asylum issues, to be completed and announced within 90 days, if necessary.
Ongoing Regional Strategy
The United States and Mexico reiterate their previous statement of December 18, 2018, that both countries recognize the strong links between promoting development and economic growth in southern Mexico and the success of promoting prosperity, good governance and security in Central America. The United States and Mexico welcome the Comprehensive Development Plan launched by the Government of Mexico in concert with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to promote these goals. The United States and Mexico will lead in working with regional and international partners to build a more prosperous and secure Central America to address the underlying causes of migration, so that citizens of the region can build better lives for themselves and their families at home.
So the mesicans are motivated to keep the central americans from getting in on their good deal?
Just commenting, most of the employees at Prosperity Bank branches, even in Oklahoma, are some kind of latino. Doesn’t make me feel secure. Whites are not all honest but most have more and different culture.
It had better not be a hoax. It had better be for real and they had better believe Trump will do it no matter or it is toothless.
Correct.
And passed to the consumer unless the same goods are bought elsewhere when other deals can be made.
The goods are originally bought from the lowest cost supplier suggesting the tariff makes previously higher cost alternatives now competitive but at higher consumer cost.
Well and rightly stated.
The only exception would be anti dumping tariff action.
Who do the Migrant Protection Protocols protect?
If they already exist why are they not in use?
This is consistent with international law. It is also against our one foot in claim asylum and stay until hearing law. What has changed?
Tariff retaliation from the importing country in turn hurts mainly the country imposing the tariff.
Tariffs are a bit like shooting yourself in the foot but making it look like you’re shooting the other guy and then the other guy deciding he should shoot himself in the foot also - to “level the playing field”. Everybody’s equally doing dumb things. A lot of hokum.
Little snippet below - Milton Friedman on the subtle negative effects of government interference with the economy, in this case tariffs. Milton Friedman was a bright light in an otherwise dim room of economic understanding of the free market.
“Milton Friedman on Trade Balance and Tariffs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5SiQpG6sg
Tariffs are nothing but artificial economics that try to sustain a system that is ineffective or dying. They are also similarly a mechanism that tries to sustain an isolated economy in a modern world of global competition.
In your example that leads to leveling the playing field is sort of like the old Spy vs. Spy. Endless escalation.
I sustain my position though that anti dumping actions, temporary in nature, are realistic and necessary at times. Anti dumping actions are like anti trust to combat unfair / unequal trade conditions. Otherwise, tariffs are false economy or just what Trump has used them for, a weapon that, if used long enough, hurts those firing the gun.
There is a danger. That is, the non tariffed vendors, including Americans can now raise prices up to a point less than the tariffed price.
Of course. Tariffs discourage competition. They either provide primary protection or counter action protection in an ever increasing war that causes prices to increase.
——Notice, even here, nobody likes tariffs——
Au Contraire mi Amigo...... a little frogmex lingo there, there are several here on Free Republic who worship tariffs and daily exhort us to abandon our present ways for the archaic days of the past and take up the tariff religion.
They preach continuously
They’re socialists in disuse.
“Who do the Migrant Protection Protocols protect?”
They have some points in them for taking care of family units and unaccompanied children, but the really significant thing is the wait in Mexico Policy, where asylum seekers are sent to Mexico to await their court date, rather than released into the USA for years (most don’t even show up for court.
Doesn’t our stupid law require that they are released here to await hearing IF they set foot in the country?
What prevented us from releasing them to mesico, besides mesico if that, before now?
My point is to ask, isn’t returning them to mesico to await their asylum hearing circumventing our own law, not that I am in favor of that law at all.
What about the accompanied or unaccompanied minors thing?
It all sounds like the dims and cheap labor lovers have made up a bunch of laws that require us to keep and host the invaders.
Usually that may be the case. What you and others are forgetting is that the US is Mexico's largest and main trading partner. Mexico simply ships their goods via trucks legally across the border every day.
If punitive tariffs cause them to look elsewhere for buyers, Mexico won't have that same short distance low cost transport convenience. Central American countries buy didly squat because they can't afford it. South America? That would probably mean ships for large amounts. Think Mexico is going to start building more freighters? Canada? Forget it.
Pres. Trump knows this. The Mexican gov knows this. Hell, as a past small businessman in California, I know this. Who is going to buy their products in large quantities from long distances? It was a good move and is already paying dividends providing Mexico follows through with their southern border security.
I believe the best part is freezing the assets of the caravan organizers, which they just did. We've all known for some time that these are not spontaneous groups fleeing so-called oppression.
This migration crisis has now taken on a new dynamic. Word will get to Central America very quickly.
Yes, more to be done like e-Verify with harsh penalties and the frigging wall. Then there are our stupid asylum laws that won't be considered while dim/socialists are in power. Don't bother - I know the RINO's blew their chance.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Necessity is the mother of invention. However, the free market doesn’t really thrive in Mexico because of its smothering government. So what would otherwise be an opportunity for sellers in Mexico to go elsewhere, adding the extra costs to the price, probably won’t happen because the free market is smothered by the Mexican government which is why they are so dirt poor.
But a healthy economic country with a thriving free market could make those changes. So all that means is America’s government interference screws up Mexico’s government interference.
The point is, tariffs do not address the core issues that has caused our economic weakness - directly caused by the federal government. Tariffs are palliative measures that appear to fix something but doesn’t and actually weakens our economy.
In the meantime, Trumps is using this threat to cull illegal immigration - what Congress is constitutionally mandated to do but won’t. God bless Trump.
Congress needs to rewrite our asylum law...that is a huge loophole.
Mexico lost just by the threat of tariffs. Let's see what happens on the southern border with their military claims and freezing organized financial monies that support caravans. I highly doubt Pres. Trump will allow them to play their game without results. He is not Bill Clinton with give-aways to the Norks. He is not W who bought into international intel pressure about Iraq. He is not Obama who bowed to foreign potentates, and furthered socialism lite.
Trump may talk too much on Social Media, but he has a firm grasp on international motivations. The man is more aware and smarter that most know. The next 2 weeks will be interesting.
Having driven from Texas to Nicaragua in the 1960s, because of it’s shape, driving across Mexico is almost like driving across the US. Getting from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala is no walk in the park. I also doubt the roads are so much better than 50 years ago, or that there are much more of them. The people who make it to our border are not likely to be the weak ones.
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