Doesn’t it seem like the relationship between Mexico and the United States is deteriorating? Actually, there is no relationship. Mexico takes whatever it wants without consequences, and the American people are suffering for it.
Besides cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador as President Trump announced over the weekend, he should also establish a remittance tax on monies transferred to Mexico. That is what the illegal and legal immigrants do. They send money home to their families via bank transfers, Western Union, PayPal, etc. Each of these transactions should carry a high premium service charge to pay for the wall.
President Trump: "I will close the border if Mexico doesn't get with it, if Mexico doesn't stop it." pic.twitter.com/16vovuXRpx
— The Hill (@thehill) March 31, 2019
Democrats and the opposition media are complaining that President Trump has hostility towards the country of Mexico. If Trump does indeed have hostility towards Mexico, there is a reason for it, Mr. Barrios-Gomez.
During the last caravan, there was a news crew at that Southern border post, and it clearly showed that it was wide open and unmanned when the caravan arrived at midnight.
I don’t know why it is so hard for people to understand why the President is pushing Mexico. If all of these people were coming straight through our border and we were helping bus them straight to Canada don’t they think Canada would be raising H with us about stopping them.
The Democrats are allowing a ridiculous asylum system and major loopholes to remain as a mainstay of our immigration system. Mexico is likewise doing NOTHING, a very bad combination for our Country. Homeland Security is being sooo very nice, but not for long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2019
The migrant caravans of thousands march through Mexico to the US border. Maybe they need to stop them at the Mexican border at the south. Trump is right; an emergency at the border is daily brewing. Democrats play petty politics and refuse to address it.
Over 90,000 apprehensions to be logged during March, according to data provided to the Mexican government. That is up more than 140 percent from March 2018, and a seven-fold jump from 2017.
When you have nearly 100K people caught in a month, you know a lot is still getting through. Mexico does nothing to stop them and offers them train and bus rides to make the trip faster and easier for them. That is NOT helping us with the problem.
But Democrats say there is no increase. They must be bad at reading and/or math.
Trump is putting them on notice that if your not helping the fight of people waltzing into your country on there way to the U.S. then your not going to get aid, not going to get a better NAFTA deal, or sympathy if you’re not willing to stop it. As well your country is running ads on how to circumvent the system to get into the U.S. so correct it or Trump/U.S. will be hard to work with.
I also believe a partial border shutdown is probably the correct response. He needs to close the Texas, Arizona and New Mexico borders with Mexico. I have no problem with these people going where they’re welcome. Let them go to California. Just put up a fence along the California border and require passports to enter the US from there.
As for Mexico, they have a long history of not enforcing and protecting its southern border. It’s high time for them to pay the price for the problems this causes for the U.S.
Consider this to be their “down payment” towards our border wall!
