Posted on 06/07/2019 9:15:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge suggested in an interview that aired Friday on "Rising" that he did not believe President Trump's move to slap new tariffs on Mexico would solve the immigration issue at the U.S. southern border.
"I'm not quite sure tariffs on Mexico are going to solve the problem for us," Ridge, who served under former President George W. Bush, told Hill.TV.
"I have a great deal of support for the notion about securing the borders, but I think we politicize the issue instead of solving the problem," he continued.
The Hill obtained a draft document on Thursday showing that the president is planning to declare a national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over “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 move comes as Trump faces backlash within his own party over the tariffs.
Trump has long called for stricter immigration policies, including a wall along the border to deter migrants.
Ridge said he worries that the situation along the southern border has become overly politicized in Washington.
"I don't think that we advance ourselves toward a solution by politicizing the border by simply talking about a wall, and not taking into consideration all the other dimensions of an immigration policy based on a 21st-century world, based on the technology we have, based on relationships we have with the leaders in the region," he said. "Those leaders have a responsibility to help us as well, and right now we've ignored them."
It’s a chip in negotiations.
Trump would almost surely be happy to be sweeter to Mexico if it would respect the USA and not use it as a happy hunting ground for all manner of mischief.
Notice the mealy mouthed word-salad. He has “support” for the “notion” of a secure border. In theory, maybe. Sorta kinda. If you squint real hard. The idea maybe is worth exploring, potentially. Tariffs work in real life, but they can’t possibly work in theory, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
Worthless. Americans have been sold a bill of goods for decades now. Nobody is allowed to be installed in any position of authority unless they agree to sit on their hands and mumble BS platitudes about “our values” and “that’s not who we are” and generally completely fail their duties yet make normal, peaceable American lives as difficult as possible.
YOU, dear Citizen, go to the airport, they crawl up yer ass with a microscope.
Illegal aliens, DHS puts them on flights no problem. Prolly smokin’ big cigars in First Class.
I love it when failures give free advice.
EX.
For a reason.
He’s right, tariffs certainly won’t solve the problem, no one thing will. Every tool available should be used. But tariffs, like building the wall, will definitely help move things in the right direction.
YUGE disappointment as gubbernor and as Sec. DHS, BUT, he fit right in with the other disappointment, shrub 43.
The number of pubbie disappointments is 100 times larger than those that do what they promised to do.
The inventor of Red-Yellow-Green alerts speaks up.
Where did the GOP-e dig up these Village Idiots?
basically all those guys you named are egomaniacs and they want face-time on TV regardless of what it does to Trump’s policy.
Again governed by idiots - as Trump said during the 2016 campaign. The only modification I would make to that is “governed by narcissistic selfish idiots!”.
Donald Trump’s own personal belief here is in the power of negotiation with everything possible on the table.
Does Mexico want a sweeter relationship with the USA? If so, it too will put sincere effort into eliminating the vinegar. We really don’t need Mexico’s wreck-creational drug dealers, for instance. We want the power to set our own policy on what’s allowed from our doctors and pharmacies, and it might even be generous, but we want it to be American and not forced on us by Mexican cartels.
Build the wall
Deport them all
Of course it isn’t going to solve the problem.
It might mitigate enough to allow other methods to come into play. Right now it’s a total mess.
1. Build the wall
2. Enforce e-Verify
3. End welfare for illegals
4. End anchor baby citizenship
Problem solved, even if we just do 3 & 4.
Hundreds of CONGO Africans show up at San Antonio Community Center, no money, no skills, no relatives:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3755212/posts
Hundres more on the way...
-PJ
Why are these people so one dimensional? Tariff pressure is just ONE component and is necessary until the wall / fence is completed, Border patrol is beefed up and legislative reforms made. sheesh, what a numbskull.
As Blackadder would say, "No speak-o Dago!"
Tom Ridge was an irrelevant lump when he headed Homeland Security. Today he’s just a has been irrelevant lump. And dumb as a box of rocks.
A couple questions:
* Who, specifically, is the "us" on behalf of whom you claim to speak?
* Even if tariffs don't fully 'solve' the problem, will they prove beneficial to Americans in forcing Mexico to help curb illegal immigration, thereby moving us closer to solving the problem?
* Do you have something to propose that will solve the problem?
Here’s hoping he remains an “EX-DHS Secretary.”
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