Posted on 02/03/2025 9:05:39 AM PST by bimboeruption
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum immediately responded to President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs on Monday by vowing to post 10,000 troops along its shared northern border with the United States.
In return, Trump agreed to delay tariffs for a month while he finalizes an agreement on security and trade with Sheinbaum.
The agreement came after the two leaders spoke earlier about Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico.
“We put tariffs on, they owe us a lot of money, and I’m sure they’re going to pay,” Trump told reporters of Mexico Sunday night.
After Monday’s conversation, Sheinbaum posted on X she had a “good conversation” with Trump and praised their tentative deal.
Trump confirmed the two leaders had a positive conversation and said he looked “forward to participating” in negotiations “as we attempt to achieve a ‘deal’ between our two Countries”:
Speaking to reporters on Sunday night, Trump said he was placing tariffs on Mexico because of its trade deficit with the U.S. and its failure to prevent migrants and fentanyl from entering the U.S.
“We have deficits with almost every country, not every country, but almost. And we’re going to change it. It’s been unfair. That’s why we owe $36 trillion; we have deficits with everybody,” he said.
“I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on Canadian Energy), and a 10% additional Tariff on China,” Trump posted on Truth Social:
This was done through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our Citizens, including fentanyl. We need to protect Americans, and it is my duty as President to ensure the safety of all. I made a promise on my Campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from...
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Mexican troops will be able to transport more illegal drugs than the cartel mules.
This is illegal, surely, threatening to use legal powers to force someone to stop doing illegal things and do legal things instead. It sound like blackmail and extortion to me.
That was my thought as well. Mexican troops supply manpower and weapons to the cartels, so who knows if this will be good or bad. I predict a lot more gunfire at the border in the coming months.
But at least if that happens, then the Mexican Government is on the hook.
The Mexican army is the Cartel.
We blackmailed our children often as one tool to change their behavior.
That should cut into the Cartel’s profits!
Jail for you. The FBI needs to investigate. Of course, the way they are going, there may not be an FBI in a couple of weeks.
I question Trumps sincerity on these tariffs when he only hits China with 10%.
I question your intelligence when we just saw, this morning, for the 20th time, that he simply uses the tariff threat as a way to get negotiations going. He likely has very little interest in actual ongoing tariffs.
(And China is the ONLY trading partner that has ANY ability to manage a trade war with us, so it makes sense that we treat them differently. They're the #1 economy in the world, aside from us. Duh.)
So you are weak on China?
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