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."
Can anyone translate this mumbo-jumbo?
Pushing the Bush immigration agenda.
He is DUMB as a BAG of ROCKS!
Tom Ridge was an establishment failure, moving on...
Tom Ridge doesn’t know the difference between his a$$ and a hole in the ground.
They trot this buffoon out 15 years after anyone paid any attention to what he says?
Desperate.
No kidding!
This from a member of an administration that watched silently as 1.5 to 2.0 million foreign nationals paraded across our southern frontier.
Yeah, please tell me what he thinks.
About as bad as taking foreign affairs advice from Bill Richardson or Madeline Albright.
That was a per year figure...
Time Magazine pegged it at 3.5 million per year.
I’d sure want to pipe up now to help fix things as well as Bush had it fixed.
Former PA Governor Tom “Flight 93 Cover-up” Ridge is a Deep State tool, bought and paid for. (<= That’s a period.)
Another Bush loser heard from...
Well Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, we know that NOTHING you tried worked so shut up.
Solve the whole thing, of course not. Help immediately, yes. Go away, Tom, if you’re just going to be negative.
Tom Ridge. What a mental powerhouse he happens to be...
“...but I think we politicize the issue instead of solving the problem,” he continued
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Well Tom, we are giving them a reason to end their open borders, as well, providing logistic and transit and encampment.
If they want to continue their policy they can pay us for it
I am not sure the tariffs will stop illegal migration to the U.S. but, to paraphrase: If tariffs stop just one criminal border crosser, it is worth it.
The RINOS and CRONY CAPITALISTS are very, very afraid the imposition of tariffs will work, because they know in their ‘heart of hearts’ that Mexico has everything to lose and the USA has everything to gain if the imposition of tariffs dramatically reduces the number of illegals.
open borders bushie idiot.
tax all remittances!
Amazing that guys like Ridge, Cruz, Thune, Cornyn and a whole host of others like to run their cock-holsters about what the President is trying to do at the border and why it won’t work. But they never seem to have an answer as to what will work. It’s all the same shit from them.
I doubt there’s a person on here, that at this point would want anything less than landmines, lions, tigers, bears, .50 cals and mini-guns, taking down anything that moves within a 1/4 mile of the border.
Will that work in lieu of tariffs?
The President has opened the books on a lot of things that have been going on with our government for decades. None of it good. But here we have another shining example of....how in the F*ck did this guy end up in the positions he did? Remember, he was the first Sec of Homeland Security
Tariffs on imports from Mexico will not “solve” the immigration problem, just as building an effective wall will not “solve” the immigration problem.
Both the wall and tariffs simply redirect people’s thinking, and maybe, once their minds are out of thinking in certain channels, there might just be an intellectual breakthrough, that the United States cannot afford and cannot absorb the endless flow of uneducated, unskilled, functionally illiterate people now crossing our borders in a swarm approaching Biblical proportions, much like locusts descending upon the land.
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