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U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration
US Department of State ^ | June 7, 2019 | Office of the Spokesperson

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.


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KEYWORDS: aliens; declaration; illegals; immigration; joint; mexico; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: Jim 0216

> “Consumers from the country imposing the tariffs suffer either by settling for inferior quality or artificially higher prices. In doing so, tariffs tend to lower the standard of living of the tariff-imposing country.”

You have it backwards. Standard of living is determined largely by a country’s productivity and competitiveness, among other things; and it, in turn, determines what kind of goods people can afford, not the other way around. Consumers who can afford to pay more will not put up with inferior goods, tariffs or not.

And prices are largely determined by SUPPLY and DEMAND, not costs.

> “The importing country, however, can go elsewhere to sell their goods.”

Where else can China sell their 500B dollars’ worth of goods if not in the US? If there were new markets in which they could sell, don’t you think they would have already done so while they are selling to us? I’d say even 20% of the 500B would be hard to replace.

By the way, please don’t confuse others by repeatedly referring to “importing country” when you meant exporting country.

> “the country imposing the tariffs will eventually eliminate them because the tariffs harm their own economy.”

One will be hard-pressed to find any specific data to support the claim that imposing tariffs harms their own economy, since there are always winners and losers. But the case can easily be made that tariffs are useful tools that can serve many purposes.

> “Tariffs are illusory….
the threat of tariffs was/is real, but the effect hurts the tariff-imposing country more than the importing country”

Is the Mexico response to the tariff threat illusory?

Are the detrimental effects on the Chinese economy so far illusory? (By the way, Samsung is just starting to lay off workers in their last factory in China, having closed the other factory last December.)

It is very curious that you keep asserting that tariffs are a hoax and illusory while ignoring the tremendous results real tariffs on China and threatened tariffs on Mexico have already achieved for us. I doubt Milton Friedman will do anyone any good if they are not even interested in honestly looking at the real world cases unfolding before their eyes.

> “But tariffs fail to solve the root causes of our economic woes which lie squarely at the feet of the federal government”

Questions:
What do you think is the root causes of our economic woes? And how do you think they can be solved??


121 posted on 06/08/2019 10:45:51 PM PDT by sun7
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To: TigersEye

“See? No tariffs needed now. Trump didn’t want to impose tariffs.”

Trump is a genius. He needed to play carrot/stick diplomacy but he didn’t have a carrot, so he made one using his stick.

Trump: “Do this, or I will take your carrot. “

Mexico: “No, don’t take our carrot, we’ll do this.”


122 posted on 06/09/2019 4:51:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

This isn’t going to work and we will be back to tariffs in 3 months. Forest Trump will learn.


123 posted on 06/09/2019 4:54:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: sun7; Jim 0216
Tariffs funded our government and protected our industrial base for over 150 years. The USA was were THE industrial powerhouse of the world.

Those small minded myopic quarterly thinking pea brains like jim will be gone soon. Instead of a flag draped coffin for him and his ilk, we will paste their final 401K statement to it. It's what they are most proud of.

124 posted on 06/09/2019 5:00:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Doesn’t our stupid law require that they are released here to await hearing IF they set foot in the country?”

Out Constitution entitles them to due process, if they set foot in the country. Under the Constitution, they are considered “US Persons” (not citizens), and that entitles everyone in our jurisdiction to some objective legal treatment.

They do not (constitutionally) have to be released prior to their adjudication though - other factors lead to their release.

Ratified treaties (The United Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees) establish a right to request asylum, and lay out some requirements for handling such cases.

Those treaties don’t require that applicants be released before their cases are judged either.

No legislation requires release of asylum applicants pending their adjudication either.

The interpretation of some US judges, and the sheer number of cases backlogged, is why they are released. Hundreds of thousands of cases are backlogged, and the wait is typically years for cases to be heard and settled. Just too many to house and feed.

Also, a Judge decided that it is too harsh/unjustified to hold children in detention for so long, and the Government entered into a consent decree (under President Bill Clinton/AG Janet Reno), called the Flores Agreement, that children would not be held longer than 20 days, if they could be placed with someone in the USA.

Other court rulings restricted family separation, which resulted in adults being quickly released, if they had a “Get Out of Jail Free” child with them. There was also a rash of people falsely claiming to be under 19 to qualify for release.


125 posted on 06/09/2019 7:33:17 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Thanks.

Im still trying to understand what now allows us to return them to mesico.

Ialso thought the various treaties required asylum seekers to do that in the first country they came to. That being mesico.


126 posted on 06/09/2019 7:39:33 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Trump may talk too much on Social Media

That's what the Left thinks. They HATE Trump's ability to say what he says directly to the people without the Delusional Lying Leftist Media misrepresenting and lying about what he says.

God bless Trump for using every means at his disposal to say what he needs and wants to say and the American People needs to hear, avoiding the Delusional Lying Leftist Media. I love it. And I don't think I'm alone.

127 posted on 06/09/2019 7:40:59 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: sun7

“What do you think is the root causes of our economic woes? “

Thank you for asking. The short answer is mainly the federal government. To show how, we’ll use the auto industry as an example.

The REAL reasons foreign autos out-compete American autos began in the 60’s and 70’s when the fat-cat manufacturers in Detroit ignored warnings that foreign auto makers were innovating their engineering and manufacturing techniques. Detroit got lazy and did not want to be bothered until, as the story goes, one day an executive on a trip to the west coast in the 70’s was stunned to see so many Japanese cars on the road.

So the first reason for inferior American auto products was LACK OF COMPETITION.

When Detroit finally saw they had real foreign competition, it ran into another big problem – unconstitutionally federally protected unions. “UAW contracts bound and gagged the Big Three with costs and obligations that fatally restricted their ability to innovate and compete” https://cei.org/2013/07/29/empire-of-rust-how-the-uaw-killed-detroit.

So UNCONSTITUTIONALLY FEDERALLY PROTECTED UNIONS were the next reason for inferior American products that could not compete.

So what was the reaction? Of course, more government. In business, if you fail, you correct or die. In government, if you fail, you just call for more money and more government and you end up with an even greater degree of failure.

So what has government done? Imposed suffocating HIGH TAXES, unconstitutional dead-end REGULATIONS, unconstitutional business-and-job-killing FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE, and engaged in basically unconstitutional SUBSIDES (BRIBES) FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS. They also stupidly DESTABILIZE & DEVALUE THE DOLLAR. Result? A greater degree of failure.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, not the EU, China, or the Man in the Moon, is the MAIN reason for our failure to compete in the marketplace. Federally protected unions, high taxes, regulations, minimum wage, subsidies, and a weak dollar all have converged to “bind and gag” American business and drive industry from our shores. Kill these mostly unconstitutional and boneheaded acts and policies and you’ve gone a long way to fixing the problem. Trump has directly addressed some of these problems. ALL need to be abolished.


128 posted on 06/09/2019 7:51:03 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: central_va

Anybody who thinks those who love freedom are traitors and anyone who loves the government economic interference of tariffs among other things, is a socialist. On FR you just a socialist in disguise.

Go way central_va, an increasingly Leftst stronghold.


129 posted on 06/09/2019 7:56:25 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Brown Deer

Trump won all by himself. Congress didn’t lift a finger to help. Except the middle finger.


130 posted on 06/09/2019 10:49:58 AM PDT by CottonBall
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My biggest surprise was Ted Cruz’s reaction. I expected the RINO’s and even Rand Paul for objecting, but tariffs are an integral part of negotiations using the carrot/stick approach. This is a very common tactic in big commercial deal negotiation strategies, but with all the political rhetoric it can be confusing to politicos.

Even so, I would have imagined that Ted would have gotten on the horn with Trump to clarify a position that anyone who read “The Art of the Deal” would have completely understood.


131 posted on 06/09/2019 1:32:06 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: Jim 0216
Anybody who thinks those who love freedom are traitors and anyone who loves the government economic interference of tariffs among other things, is a socialist. On FR you just a socialist in disguise.

No you big jerk, income taxes interfere in everyone's personal financial life. Tariffs are not progressive, consumption based tax and all true conservatives and patriots love them including George Washington.. You are globalist shill and scum of the earth like all of the US Senate and half of all Republicans in general..

132 posted on 06/09/2019 1:37:26 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: CottonBall

If you trust Mexico then I guess it is a win.


133 posted on 06/09/2019 1:40:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Buzz off Dork.


134 posted on 06/09/2019 1:41:36 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim 0216

Oooooo that hurt so much.


135 posted on 06/09/2019 1:42:05 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Try this: you’re a useful idiot of the Left and are total and compete waste of time.

You’re also on my No Fly Zone, so buzz off and stay off.


136 posted on 06/09/2019 4:07:11 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: central_va

Of course I don’t trust Mexico, but I trust Trump. He can have those tariffs back on in a week :)


137 posted on 06/09/2019 4:47:47 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

My problem is this... They should’ve always been applying for asylum in the first country they cross into other than their own (the one they are claiming they need asylum from). Let Mexico give them asylum.


138 posted on 06/10/2019 4:17:41 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: livius

.so some of these places have nobody over the age of 8 or under the age of 70 living in them anymore.”

In other words nobody lives there anymore.


139 posted on 06/10/2019 10:19:32 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I need some green first and then we'll talk a new deal!)
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To: Jim 0216

Thank you for elaborating all the valid points showing how the government is behind the factors driving businesses and industries from our shores.

And I totally agree with your assessment: “Kill these mostly unconstitutional and boneheaded acts and policies and you’ve gone a long way to fixing the problem.”

However, we both know these policies will never go away unless we can get rid of all the career politicians and until the prevailing leftward trend is reversed. Though the President has been working hard to undo some of them, they will be long-term fixes and cannot address the urgent challenges we face, namely, the China threat and the border crisis.

Given such a reality, in order to support your vehement opposition to tariffs, in addition to academic theories, you will need to show us:

- How the tariffs have hurt us so far;

- How the tariffs have NOT hurt China so far; if you acknowledge they have a downturn, you’ll have to explain what causes it if not tariffs;

- A better alternative to tariffs if you, too, believe we should stop financing a hostile regime to the tune of hundreds of billions annually;

- Likewise, a better alternative to tariffs on Mexico to immediately address the border crisis (knowing that closing the border will not stop the flow of illegals);

By imposing tariffs on China, we are not blaming them, we are simply correcting the mistakes that were made. I think the President had also made this point.


140 posted on 06/10/2019 12:56:10 PM PDT by sun7
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