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.
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.
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!
Here’s a question that maybe someone can answer. We have a wonderfully fertile country. Are there not vast areas of land in America (other than California) where we can grow produce that we get from Mexico???