Posted on 06/07/2019 6:28:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter late Friday that a signed agreement has been reached with Mexico, and that the tariffs scheduled to go into effect on Monday have been suspended.
Just last week, Trump announced that a five percent tariff on all goods coming from Mexico would go into effect on June 10, and would gradually increase up to 25 percent until the illegal immigration problem was resolved.
The announcement launched a flurry of talks between officials from both countries, with reports that Mexico was willing to make some concessions.
Late Friday, Trump tweeted, “I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended.”
Trump via Twitter said that Mexico, “has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border. This is being done to greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States.”
Trump said that details of the agreement will be released shortly by the State Department.
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That is what you and I would do but, on the face of it, you and I are inclined to play hardball especially with someone who names a son after Che. Trump must have a good basis for not doing so at this stage; there are a lot of Americans living in Mexico, etc., etc.
OK! I read that the Mexican army was at their southern border today and shut it down. All of these “migrants” are being trans shipped from Cuba or VZ, in the case of the Africans or Middle Easterners, or being forced up from Guatemala, VZ, Honduras, etc., by leftist forces.
Mexicans actually want their own country back, since it has now become nothing but a pathway to the US. I think Trump actually gave the raving leftist AMLO an out from his open-borders plan. AMLO is a total socialist, but he was elected because the Mexican population has run through the PRI and PAN and they’ve both been corrupt up the the eyeballs and Mexicans hope that it might help if they for somebody new (who was extreme left but sounded like he actually wanted to promote Mexico).
So we shall see. Trump does know how to get a deal, and I think people from other countries respect him, no matter how much the Dems are trying to undermine him.
All the “asylum seekers” need to be returned to Mexico to apply for asylum there, since that was the first country they encountered.
All we need now is a bounty on them and all visa violators and wetbacks.
“Get em out!”
Mexico is run by the cartels, I dont trust their Govt at all,if any funny business happens raise the tariffs to 50 percent
I don’t think Trump negotiated this. I think Pence was lead on this. If there’s not a hard stop to The Invasion this weekend, it was all theater
Yes, and the cartels didn’t sign the agreement. Neither did the military aspects under control of the cartels.
Mexico froze some human trafficker accounts.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-immigration-finmin-idUSKCN1T72LC
Now, I’m hearing the story you just said, that perhaps these guys are organizers of the marches.
Maybe so. At first, I thought, that they caught some kingpin smuggler... but I’ll lean to what Rush and others say, I heard something like that as well.
Mexican Army at their southern border is fascinating. I’m more concerned about their northern border.
That's part of the agreement - they are to be returned to Mexico while awaiting US action.
See this link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3755325/posts?page=64#64
IMO, Pence will do what Trump tells him to do and with energy; otherwise, he won't be on the ticket in 2020.
I didn't realize Pence was open borders; but if he is, we would be better served with a different VP candidate in any event.
We will have to see this before we can believe it.
However, if this turns out to be legitimate, Trump has to receive credit, and a highly corrupt and poor Mexico, will have just proven it is more capable and willing to fix a problem which has been helping to kill our country, than almost the entire elected US Congress whose job it is to protect our borders!
The people coming in on our southern border are mostly not Mexicans. Mexico needs population, because it has been so dysfunctional for so long that anybody of working age who could do so fled to the US. The people trying to break through Mexico’s northern border aren’t Mexicans, but the thousands of Central Americans, Africans and Middle Easterners who are being funded through Cuba and the left.
I think the thing that Trump did that was the most convincing was that he reminded Mexico that its national sovereignty was being violated by this invasion from the south. The Mexicans hate it, and I think AMLO (a raving leftist but elected because he wasn’t from either of the major parties) saw this as a chance to deal with the problem but at the same time not have to take it on himself.
I could not believe that media thought this was about Trade. This was one of The gutsiest moves I’ve seen a President make in decades.
Mexico southern border 697 miles. Northern border 1,952 miles. Most of the invaders today come from Central America.
Neither land border is the total problem (visa overstays etc.)
Hell, we had nothing two weeks ago. Threat of tariff we got something. Not sure what itisbutwegot something
I don’t either. Sorta like North Korea and Iran.
>>>Well, what’s the measure of success? What has to happen to keep the tariffs off? Do we have monitors at the border?
I wouldn’t expect much out of this.
Mick Mulvaney acknowledged last weekend there are no concrete benchmarks being set to assess whether Mexico is acting to reduce numbers of migrants from Central America entering the US via Mexican territory.
I bet Sen Cruz now wishes he’d kept his big mouth shut for just a few more hours!
The suspension of the tariffs is up for readdressing in 90 days, based on Mexico’s performance, as per agreement.
Exactly right - ALL it is, is a signature on a piece of paper.
They’ve never lifted a finger to be good neighbors before so let’s see some action on Mexico’s part before we celebrate.
As if any Freeper didn't already know them. We don't need more proof we need more retaliation. We have whole agencies in full revolt refusing to carry out orders from their boss.
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