Following Trump's tariff threat, Mexico begins immigration talks in Washington https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...-begins-immigration-talks-washington-n1013146 With just a week until the first tariffs bite, the Mexican delegation may have a hard time convincing U.S. officials it's trying to stem Central American migration. June 3, 2019, 8:52 AM CDT By Reuters Fighting to stave off punitive tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, a senior Mexican delegation is beginning high level talks on Monday in Washington, where it will be pushed to do more to hold back Central American migrants. Trump says he will apply tariffs of 5% on all Mexican goods on June 10, and increase the rate in coming months to 25% if Mexico does not substantially halt illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexican border, which is at a decade high this year. Global equities tumbled after Trump's unexpected threat last week against the United States biggest trade partner, as investors feared his aggressive trade diplomacy could tip the United States and other major economies into recession. With just a week until the first tariffs bite, the delegation led by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard may have a hard time convincing U.S. officials that Mexico is doing enough on immigration to avoid punishment, despite having signaled in recent days it was prepared to further tighten security. The U.S.-Mexican talks begin on Monday with a meeting between Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Marquez and U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. On Wednesday, Ebrard meets U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump on Sunday called Mexico an "abuser" of the United States and said he wanted action, not talk. Mexico has signaled it would retaliate to the tariffs, with targets likely to include farm products on Trump supporting states. In a possible sign of U.S. priorities in the talks, which are due to run through at least Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Sunday that Mexico should deploy more personnel to interdict illegal migrants along a 150 mile (241.4 km) stretch of border with Guatemala. That border is a remote region of mostly jungle and river, and has traditionally been hard to police. The causes of Central American immigration are mainly related to lack of economic opportunity and rampant violence. McAleenan also said Mexico should bolster its own immigration screenings along its southern border, crack down on networks transporting migrants and enable more migrants to wait in Mexico while they apply for asylum in the United States. Since January the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has ramped up detentions and deportations, but that has not been enough to stop the growing tide of families reaching the United States, mainly from Guatemala and Honduras. In May, numbers are expected to have outpaced the 99,000 people apprehended at the border in April, with many of those crossing in groups of families who will mostly be released to await asylum hearings in the United States. In its biggest concession to Trump so far, Mexico agreed in December to receive some Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States to await the resolution of their cases. So far more than 6,000 people have been sent into Mexico under the program, which operates at three crossings and is commonly known as "Remain in Mexico." DHS intends to increase the number of returns under "Remain in Mexico," a spokeswoman said on Saturday, saying there were plans to expand the program, although new crossings had not been officially designated. A more radical idea that has long been promoted by the DHS and may again be on the table in talks this week despite previously being a red line for Lopez Obrador, is to make Central Americans apply for Mexican asylum, not U.S. asylum. Under this policy, Mexico could be declared a "safe third country." Rights groups argue that leaving asylum seekers in Mexico puts them at risk, since it suffers from similar levels of violence to the places they are fleeing. The ultimatum from Trump is the biggest foreign policy test to date for Lopez Obrador. Aside from struggling to combat migrant flows, Mexican security forces are also fighting endemic gang violence. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Trump extended his demands on Mexico beyond immigration, demanding it stopped an "invasion" of drug dealers and cartels. In April, Trump took a step back from an earlier threat to completely close the U.S. border with Mexico to fight illegal immigration, under pressure from companies worried it would cause chaos for businesses. Mexico's economy, which is heavily reliant on exports to the United States, shrank in the first quarter and would suffer a lot more if Trump were to jack tariffs up all the way to 25 percent. Trump's aggressive trade diplomacy, both with Mexico and China, has scared investors away from riskier assets in global markets, as they fear it could tip the United States and other major economies in to recession.
I don't want to sound sympathetic to these illegals, nor do I want to sound like I think Mexico is doing enough. However, I am not sure what more the Mexican border patrol can do. They are bought and sold by the cartels (just like their president and their government), there is rampant department corruption, the coyotes just dig new tunnels when the old ones are collapsed, and virtually no one is threatened by a wall. Here we are in the states so overburdened with granting these people due process (which to me is incredible because they aren't citizens and shouldn't be afforded that) that we are letting them out by the busload into sanctuary cities with court dates two years in the future. Why doesn't Trump get Mexico to help pay for round-the-clock 747s to drop off illegals back into Central America? This wall idea is designed to pander to the lowest quartile of IQ. We need an actual solution.
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How about a "wall of lead"? That is, cross the border uninvited... get shot on sight*! (After 10,000 or so casualties, they'd think twice about transgressing our borders. And not all that radical... think of what N. Korea or Iran would do to invaders...) *Of ocouse that wouldn't be our 1st option, civilized culture that we are. Could be we just "turn them back", or #2, throw them in jail for 10 years or so. But if 10,000 or so of them are shot down at the border, would send a message to other potential transgressers... "You're not welcome here".... regardless of how much Odumbo, Hellary, Pelosi, Schumer, et al want to destroy America...
I commend your willingness to propose a rather serious solution. Well done, sir. Orange Man Bad is so boring.
But Orange Man Bad is so appealing and easy to get pissed off about... Seriously though I don't see a resolution to this. Tariffs on China can be resolved with a finite number of pen strokes and phone calls etc. among various Chinese parties. The negotiation is about getting the Chinese government (and its minions) to change their own behavior. This thing with Mexico though, requires the Mexican government to control the behavior of thousands of people who already couldn't care less about what the Mexican government thinks, there is no immediate, binary solution here. This is the kind of thing that worries me.
Mexico's problem is easier to solve. All they need to do is shutdown their borders to the migrants. Harden the fence perimeter by adding heavy barriers. Move Mexican Federal police to disperse them with tear gas if needed. Those who insist on trying to get in, would have to pay coyotes who will charge them a small fortune. Problem solved. Mexico gets tens of billions in trade with the US, plus tens of billions more in remittances from the US. You are being a bad neighbor if you allow migrants to just get into your country then, bus them to the US border? No other country would tolerate that, why should the US? It is a hostile act of Mexico that they can very easily fix!