In fight with Trump, Mexico has plenty of ways to punch back

MSN News ^ | January 29, 2017 | Joshua Partlow, David Agren

[Grampa Dave]

How many strip malls have multiple so called grocery stores with big signs saying they take EBT Cards and other programs like the WIC program to our illegal populations, 7 days a week?

In those strip malls, often tattoo/body piercing joints are open and do very well along with a taqueria, and of course with a Western Union or another electronic money transfer outlet. All of these connected business seem to thrive while strip malls without these businesses go under.

[Lisbon1940]

We should change the name of the Mexico City Policy. Our pro-life protocols shouldn’t undermine our immigration imperatives.

[Gasshog]

MeeheeCo Peso is already on shaky ground.

With their puny economy they are fools to take on the behemoth.

[Liz]

Did the Mexican authorities ever inform the US about terrorist activities emanating from their country?

BREITBART REPORTED: “Among the terror jihadists that travel back and forth through our porous southern border w/ Mexico is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas,” authorities reported.

“Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year,” according to information provided to Judicial Watch by a source identified only as “a high-ranking Homeland security official in a border state.”

According to the intelligence, Khabir now provides training to thousands of jihadis – mostly from Syria and Yemen – at a base in near Ciudad Juarez, which is located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.

US authorities found out during an investigation of food stamp fraud in a NJ bodega, looking into the store's wire-transfers (remittances).

They all seemed to trace back to one or two accounts in Mexico City.

Cooperating with Mexican Authorities, it soon became apparent exactly what the laundered money was being used to finance.

[Pravious]

“The media take the side of the Mexican government against the American people.”

Exactly how I read it.

[Liz]

Excellent point......the money is no doubt pouring in from these nefarious activities.

[LibWhacker]

Do we miss the Incas? No. We won’t miss Mexico either. They’re playing with fire. Unless they want to go the way of the Incas, the Aztecs, the Maya, the Lost City of Atlantis, they’d better tread lightly. We could annihilate them economically, and nobody in the world will miss them.

[central_va]

Middlemen suck up all the additional profit realized using 3rd world labor and importing duty free back to the USA. Do the products that big cap corporations make in Mexico then ship to the USA cost any less when purchased by US citizens? Hell no. A Chevy Cruz made in Mexico costs the same as the US made Cruz.

Carrier decided to stay in the USA. But we're the furnaces that they intended to make in Mexico going to cost less after the proposed move? No.

[Grampa Dave]

"Mexico is not a NATO Member. Mexico is invading the US. European NATO Members need to help pay for the defensive Wall. Both construction and operations."

BOL! We can see Trump negotiating with the Euro Trash NATO countries, "Help Finance our wall against our invaders, or you go it alone with NATO!"

Then, after the wall is finished and paid for, then we withdraw from NATO.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“...wouldn’t wanna hurt no kangaroos...”

[central_va]

The sooner we get a wall between us and the heart eater the better.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Our trump card (pun unavoidable) is we have the buying power in the form of high paid workers, while their workers are underpaid, or slave labor in some cases. That was the reason our companies sent jobs out of the country, but it also means that in a trade war, the other countries would lose the profits from selling to our highly paid consumers and have only their underpaid workers or slave labor to sell to. I like our chances of winning if it comes to that.

[Hostage]

MSN coaching Mexico against America. Awwwww, isn’t that special?

[Fresh Wind]

When a wall is in place, how does and additional 150,000 migrants on Mexico’s side of it hurt the US?

Once the wall is in place, there won't be 150,000 migrants on the other side of the wall. They will know that they can't get into the US, so they will stay out of Mexico as well and start looking for another country that is stupid enough to let them in. I wish them luck!

[Gen.Blather]

I question that taxpayer money given to foreign governments goes to the intended beneficiaries. I suspect much of it is eaten up in fees and regulatory compliance and just plain theft.

[Leep]

Besides if they were able to get over the border to the US, provided law was enforced, they couldn’t get a job, get a license to drive, send money back to Mexico, send there kids to school here or get any kind of g’mint assistance.

[Liz]

You got that right.

FOLLOW THE MONEY-----the resignation of Agustin Carstens, chief of Mexico’s central bank, has left MSM pundits and even business analysts scratching their heads. It appears no-one has any idea why Carstens is leaving…...... well, almost no-one.

Betcha there's a lot of THERE, there.

ITEM--- Mexico has been swilling at the US trough....grabbing our tax dollars hand over fist.

ITEM---Mexico is one of the top ten countries receiving US foreign aid----almost a billion per year besides raking in hundreds of millions via the infamous "Merida Project."

ITEM--- Mexicans here send home back billions of our tax dollars.....the federales are prolly getting a huge cut of that.

ITEM--Some 125 countries including Muslim scum gather at the Mexican border to stroll into the US. Mexico prolly gets a fee from each country to let that happen.

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EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO HUMANITARIAN US
FOREIGN AID TO POVERTY-STRICKEN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA?

Alfonso Portillo---ex-president of Central America's Guatemala--- faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo colluded w/ corrupt C/A insiders---he personally endorsed three $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by a close associate and political supporter.

The embezzled foreign aid money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

<><> Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...

<><> plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator...

<><> through overdrafts financed by public reserves the pilfered foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates. (NY POST excerpt 5/28/13)

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/

[School of Rational Thought]

Much of the article is fake news.

Mexico can stop selling to US. US can stop remittances to Mexico.

Make Slim pay for wall. Slim worth $50 billion while his countrymen have to resort to crime. Oh wait, those are the browner Mexicans of indigenous decent.

[Liz]

Obama had the top Central America federales in
the White House begging for more US tax dollars.

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Central American govts are conspiring against the US---threatening the United States.......UNLESS we send them more foreign aid money.

As you read his words, remember that Guatemalan President Otto Perez is under investigation for misuse of foreign aid. Perez was formally charged on Thursday, June 16, 2016, in a sprawling corruption scheme that emptied government coffers and laundered money to be spent on Miami shopping sprees, real estate and luxury vehicles.

Otto Perez

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Guatemalan President Otto Perez warns the USA: "you will be inundated w/ more contagious illegals if billions of US tax dollars are not handed over."

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.

Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm. Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue.

They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters. He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement.

"Now we understand it's not simply a question of the United States saying: 'Right, here's $2 billion a year for five years' for example - the governments of the three countries have to play their part too," the conservative Perez, who took power in early 2012, said in an interview late on Monday.

The US aid package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added.

The three Central American governments are urging the United States to shoulder the lion's share of the costs, arguing that U.S. demand for illegal narcotics has fueled violence among drug gangs across much of the impoverished region.

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option," Guatemala's foreign minister, Carlos Morales, told Reuters. "If they don't support it, the crisis will kick off again, you can count on it."

Perez said he hoped the United States would put up about 60 percent of funding. "But we'll have to discuss it calmly and see what each individual country can do, and what can be achieved by common consent."

During meetings in New York in September, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Central American officials he hoped Congress could approve about $300 million in funding, Morales said, noting the sum was "nothing" given the scale of the problem.

Central American leaders are due to meet Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 12, 2014 in Washington to sound out U.S. support for their plan, Morales added.--SNIP--

(OCT 2014---Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Kieran Murray) http://news.yahoo.com/u-stump-billions-curb-central-america-migration-perez-171130651.html

REMINDER--- $266 million of our tax dollars in the 2015 spending bill went to Central America earmarked for "humanitarian aid to the children." (cue laugh machine)

[Wilderness Conservative]

Doing my part. Boycotting everything Mexican.