Mexico can go punch a Taco. At least 1/4 of their GDP is in illegal remittances back to Mexico in some manner.
It sounds like Joshua and David have sided with Mexico against America. Friggin’, bottomfeeding snowflakes.
It was as authorities began to look into the store's wire-transfers (remittances) that things got interesting. 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.
“Among the terror jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border 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.
“Staking out U.S. targets is not difficult, and Khabir actually brags in an Italian newspaper article published last week that the border region is so open that he ‘could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.’” (hat tip breirbart.com)
IguesstheycouldsendtherestofMrsJebBushsfamiyhere!(Mykeysstuck)
Pathetic if it thinks it has any bargaining position. We could close the border tomorrow and see no adverse impact. They cannot cut exports, but if they do, that’s fine. What we don’t need are Mexicans. If they don’t accept Mexicans back, we cut their products, which we can get elsewhere. Regarding remittances, they need 50% withholding, let senders then get this back with tax returns, presuming their employment is legal and properly documented and taxed.
Mexico benefits mightily from NAFTA and relaxed US guest-worker policies, let alone our tolerance of their citizen exports.
But, to quote Randy Newman (from “Let’s drop the big one”)
“We give the money,
Are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful, and they’re hateful!”
It’s always “Thanks, and can we have some more?”, not “OK, we see your point, how can we help?”
The US does NOT need Mexico or ANY OTHER COUNTRY for Anything, this Country can be Self Sufficient easily and was for hundreds of years.
Te REST of the WORLD NEEDS US, and they appear to ALL HATE US, so they can ALL F&^% OFF
I noticed there is a fence around the house with the mural painted on it. So Mexicans are not opposed to fenses when it is to protect their property. Only fences that protects America.
“Top economic officials have already said that Mexico would “mirror” any additional taxes or tariffs that the United States imposes. Former officials have said that Mexico could also tax corporate profits from the many American companies with operations in Mexico.”
I don’t think they thought this through. Increasing the cost of American companies doing business in Mexico is a good thing if it decreases the incentive for those companies to continue operating in Mexico. So Mexico, go for it.
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.
Fake news.
From the article: “Mexico deported nearly 150,000 migrants bound for the United States, most of them from Central America. Without this cooperation, officials predict that the number of migrants turning up at the U.S. border could double.”
When a wall is in place, how does and additional 150,000 migrants on Mexico’s side of it hurt the US?
And the author’s observation of “punishing the American consumer”, we consumers need to suck it up. Our own greed for getting the most for our buck has been the number one problem we foisted upon ourselves to drive production of consumer products to foreign cheaper labor markets, IMHO.
“....could lead to a recession and spur more migration north.”
There will be a BIG WALL and vastly increased border patrols. Mexicans “migrate north” all the please but they will be STOPPED by the wall.
There are punches and there are TKO’s
Meeheeco punches are like little girls compared to Trump’s/
No Contest
“The media take the side of the Mexican government against the American people.”
Exactly how I read it.
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.
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.
MSN coaching Mexico against America. Awwwww, isn’t that special?
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.
Doing my part. Boycotting everything Mexican.
The very notion that the USA and Mexico are anywhere near on an equal level is ludicrous.