Posted on 06/06/2019 3:02:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump is planning to declare a new national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S., according to a draft document of the declaration reviewed by The Hill.
According to the document, the new emergency is necessary due to “the failure of the Government of Mexico to take effective action to reduce the mass migration of aliens illegally crossing into the United States through Mexico.”
The new emergency declaration would follow a February emergency declaration, which Trump used to justify sending National Guard troops to support Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at the southern border.
Trump on Friday threatened to impose a five-percent tariff on all Mexican goods crossing into the United States, which would increase by another five percent every subsequent month, capping at 25 percent in October.
The draft, which delineates how tariffs would be imposed on Mexican goods, mentions nine separate times Mexico's “failure” to control northward migration from Central America.
“The United States Government has repeatedly asked the Government of Mexico to take responsibility and help reduce this mass migration. Yet the Government of Mexico has failed to take sufficient action to alleviate this problem, has allowed this mass incursion to increase, and has failed to secure its own southern border,” reads the draft.
A Mexican delegation led by Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has been in Washington since Saturday and is seeking to reach a deal and stave off the tariffs.
But the White House as of Thursday afternoon said the U.S. was still planning to go through with them.
“Position has not changed, and we are still moving forward with tariffs at this time,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in an email.
Mexican markets have been unstable since the announcement, as the Mexican economy is heavily dependent on exports to the United States.
Mexican manufacturing shares value chains with U.S. manufacturing, with products crossing the border as many as eight times before being assembled for sale to the final consumer.
Trump's new emergency declaration is certain to set off opposition in Congress, where Democrats and some key Republicans have voiced opposition to the tariffs.
“If the President does declare a national emergency and attempt to put these tariffs into place, I will introduce a resolution of disapproval to stop his overreach,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) in a press release Thursday.
Still, Trump would likely veto any congressional action to block the declaration.
Trump's first use of the veto was against a congressional resolution to block his February emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
It is unlikely that opponents of the tariffs will have the votes to override a potential veto.
In the draft emergency declaration, Trump writes that around 675,000 people have been apprehended or turned away at the border so far in fiscal 2019.
“More than three-fourths of the aliens illegally crossing our southern border are from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. They often travel through Guatemala, cross Mexico’s southern border, and travel without restriction across Mexico before entering the United States," reads the document. “The Government of Mexico is well aware of this problem.”
Do this Donald, and don’t hesitate to embarrass the rotten, stinking GOP’ers when they try to scuttle your plans!
ohhhh i love it.
how can anyone say that the apprehension of illegals on the border in May alone is not a national emergency.
So basically... a D-day sized landing force was caught at the border. Imagine how many got through? 500k 1mm?
This can’t go on for long... there is clearly a very concerted effort by foreign enemies and domestic traitors to destroy the sovereignty of the nation.
*144,000 illegals in May alone.
Now let’s see which weak @ss republicans get the vapors.
Do this Donald, and don’t hesitate to embarrass the rotten, stinking GOP’ers when they try to scuttle your plans!
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I really worry about the turncoat GOP’ers.
To paraphrase Patton: I’d rather have a Democrat in front of me than a Republican behind me.
Never trust a Republican.
Trump is just doing the job the Congress refuses to do. I believe this is more than immigration it’s about getting our jobs and businesses back from Mexico. Mexico has screwed us over with this immigration thing and Trump is going to pay them back.
Amen, brother. Rs (with exceptions) have sold US down the river.
I think the goal is to push Mexico out of NAFTA.
The only plan is do or do not, there is no plan.
Thank you President Donald J. Trump
U could be right about NFTA being his ultimate goal. He mention no excuses from them. Mexico doesn’t see the big picture. They are also getting oil from us and Trump could cut that off. I sense Trump is pissed and someone will pay.
I read that the drug cartels control about 80% of the border.
Most of the Mexican government is corrupt and owned by the cartels.
Shutting down the border until the cartels stop the flow seems to be the only realistic thing to do.
Declare the cartels terrorists. I wish Bill Barr would exert some pressure on Sanctuary Cities. His outward presence is missing. Mr. Barr the law is the law.
I agree.
...and probably 50% of Congress
How come there have been no national injunctions against Trump’s Mexico tariffs?
Every other Trump immigration issue instantly generates a national injunction, and then the issue just completely disappears.
“Tariffs are not taxes”
“Why does congress claim approval authority?”
Congress retails tax and regulation to the country through K St lobbying/intermediary industry,
Tariffs interfere with Congress’ business model-the business model that has taken Washington DC from 84th city in the nation per capita income in 2000 to number one as of 2016.
The intent of the Founding Fathers was for Fed.gov to fund itself off tariffs.
“The tariff was the main form of federal taxation over the first half of the history of this country, until the income tax emerged in 1913. There is an indisputable chronological correlation between the tariff and phenomenal economic growth. From the late 18th to the early 20th twentieth centuries, the United States steadily developed into the most successful economy in the world.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2018/03/09/when-tariffs-worked/
For Congress to take money in return for tariff regulation would be opening Congress to charges of treason-accepting money from foreign interests and governments for legislative favor.
Taxation and regulation however... has a “established and accepted” business model.
MAGA!!!!
At least 50%.
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