Posted on 09/03/2016 10:30:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A Mexican lawmaker is pushing for a law that would make it extremely difficult for a president Donald Trump to erect a border wall without severe penalties.
The Hill reported: A Mexican lawmaker is pushing legislation that would let Mexico's government retaliate against a possible Donald Trump presidency, Reuters reported Friday.
The legislation is designed to counter any attempt from the U.S. government to make Mexico pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and gives the Mexican Senate power to disavow international treaties if Mexican national and business interests are threatened by another state.
"In cases where the property/assets of [our] fellow citizens or companies are affected by a foreign government, as Donald Trump has threatened, the Mexican government should proportionally expropriate assets and properties of foreigners from that country on our territory," the preliminary summary of the proposal said.
Senator Armando Rios Piter from the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution will present the legislation next week in hopes of sending a message to Trump about his immigration policy.
"At a time like this, it's vital for us to understand why this relationship benefits both. We're neighbors, we're friends, we're partners," Piter said. "[Trump is] putting [that] at risk."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstatewatcher.com ...
Severe penalties ? What do they call dumping 50 million of their criminal underclass on the United States ?
We don’t need any more bad economic news here..l.of course if Trump makes mfg more attractive here perhaps they will come back before Mexico acts
Too bad there bottom line is effected here as well
I believe those ‘payments last year from Mexicans in the US, legal and illegal, totaled 24 billion dollars. A ‘fee’ of 4-5% on the transfer of those remittances could raise over 1 billion per year. The wall has been estimated to cost 10 billion. Considering these projects are usually budgeted over 10 years-——a wall payed for in 10 years by Mexicans. BTW, a ‘fee’ on remittance payments is nothing new. The U S did it to Cuba for decades.
I believe those ‘payments last year from Mexicans in the US, legal and illegal, totaled 24 billion dollars. A ‘fee’ of 4-5% on the transfer of those remittances could raise over 1 billion per year. The wall has been estimated to cost 10 billion. Considering these projects are usually budgeted over 10 years-——a wall payed for in 10 years by Mexicans. BTW, a ‘fee’ on remittance payments is nothing new. The U S did it to Cuba for decades.
Dang small iPad buttons......
Mexico’s illegal drug industry is facing a distribution road block if the wall is constructed. The biggest noise against the wall will come from those directly benefiting from illegal drug money and the associated payoffs.
I believe the Mexican “criollos,” of primarily Spanish descent, are pushing out the lower classes across our borders. It is a devious, racist, ethnic cleansing in a country that is more culturally stratified than you can imagine. It is similar to the apartheid we saw in South Africa. If there was a perfect example of cultural racism, Mexico is it.
Trump and congress should stop all foreign aid to mexico and the rest of central america.
See what the Mexico President will say about the cost of the WALL then.
My opinion.
Build the Wall.
Put a 5% excise tax on money transfers and payments to Mexico.
VOILA!
Neighbors, friends and partners don't sneak into your house, steal you blind, rape your daughter and shoot you.
Senator Rios Liter should visit Venezuela so he can see where this road he wants to turn down ends.
I was going to smugly point out that companies in the US enjoy security in their property and enforceable contracts. Then I remembered the Government Motors fiasco.
Indeed.
Aw shucks, folks!
They started a war with us, before The Civil War.
This time, we won’t have to invade.
Nuke Mexico City, and say ISIS did it.
So Mexico has the authority to dictate what WE can build on OUR land?
Mexico has the authority to thwart US from setting taxes or fees on money sent from OUR county?
Mexico has the authority to control what WE do with assets WE have confiscated and are physically located HERE?
Presumptuous and delusional. (But aren’t they entertaining?)
Fender makes guitars in Mexico. They’re cruddy!
Hey Mexico besa mi culo.
It’s like the value of fiat currencies - intrinsically all worthless, but some are worth even less than others.
If Trump was called on it, he could say he was protecting against possible invasion by the Mexican Army. Turn the argument around against them, so to speak.
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