Posted on 11/26/2024 9:41:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
MEXICO CITY -- President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.
Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.S. problem.
“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Sheinbaum said, referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.
She said Tuesday that Mexico had done a lot to stem the flow of migrants, noting “caravans of migrants no longer reach the border.” However, Mexico's efforts to fight drugs like the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl — which is manufactured by Mexican cartels using chemicals imported from China — have weakened in the last year.
Sheinbaum said Mexico suffered from an influx of weapons smuggled in from the United States, and said the flow of drugs “is a problem of public health and consumption in your country’s society.”
Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. “If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she said.
Sheinbaum’s bristly response suggests that Trump faces a much different Mexican president than he did in his first term.
Back in late 2018, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a charismatic, old-school politician who developed a chummy relationship with Trump. The two were eventually able to strike a bargain in which Mexico helped keep migrants away from the border
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Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, is NOT LIKE AMLO, She is a stern leftist ideologue trained in radical student protest movements, and appears less willing to pacify or mollify Trump.
Fine with me.
You gonna put a tariff on drugs or what?
The wall height increases by a meter..
And then the U.S. imposes a 40% tax on remittance that is funded with unaccounted for, untaxed, under the table money. Thus causing severe damage to one of the leading sources of the Mexican GDP
Come and take it.
You want to retaliate with tariffs on us? Go for it.
In the Lucille Ball voice…..ahhhhh okay!
Bluffing.
Don’t move or I will hang myself.
The breakfast burritos can knock themselves out. We can put a tariff on every illegal alien azho that they export into America. Mexico IS NOT OUR FRIEND. Their drugs and illegal alien border jumpers kill millions of American every year.
I guess that means we would have to peso much more for their products
If any Mexicans with influence are lurking on FR I can only want you that the mood in America isn’t conducive to foreign governments talking back to Americans from a leftist perspective. Does Mexico want to get into a real p^ssing match with America? Americans are sooo done with whining from leaders of sh^thole countries grifting on our economy with unfair trade and migrant invasions.
The new and ministration and a minority of Americans are in a mood to kick your teeth in, do you want to try us?
This pendeja is going to learn the hard way.
Trump shouldn’t let this ho act like she’s some kind of gungho wimpy Smurf U.S. mayor or “governor” action hero. When she puts tariffs on us to retaliate, we just double ours.
Ok
No need to have tariffs on either side. Mexico just needs to close the border.
Bring it you commie b!tch.
The cartels will quickly solve you.
“Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. “If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she said.”
No it wouldn’t. We could divert most of our GDP to s-hole countries and it wouldn’t make a dent because their problems are systemic.
Percentage? She wants a payoff.
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