Thread: President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Spoke on the Phone Amid Bord

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President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Spoke on the Phone Amid Border Wall Tensions

Vivian Salama and Julie Pace / AP

Updated: 6:44 PM Pacific

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto spoke for an hour by phone Friday amid rising tensions over the U.S. leader's plans for a southern border wall, administration officials said.

Trump and Pena Nieto had been expected to meet in Washington next week, but the Mexican president abruptly canceled his visit on Thursday. His decision came after Trump moved forward with plans to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for construction.

Following the cancellation, Trump's spokesman said the White House would seek to pay for the border wall by slapping a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico, as well as on other countries the U.S. has a trade deficit with. The White House later cast the proposal as just one option to pay for the wall.

The strong reaction from Mexico signaled a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and one of its most important international partners just days into the new administration.

The U.S. and Mexico conduct some $1.6 billion a day in cross-border trade, and cooperate on everything from migration to drug enforcement to major environmental issues.

Two administration officials who confirmed Friday's phone call insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Trump, who took office without any significant foreign policy experience, has moved swiftly in his first week in office to refocus on what he has deemed an "America First" policy. His position has left key U.S. allies on edge about their standing with Washington.One of those allies — British Prime Minister Theresa May — met with Trump at the White House Friday.

Later in the day, the president was to travel to the Pentagon, where he was expected to sign a trio of executive actions, including one to halve the flow of refugees into the United Sates and stop all entries from some majority-Muslim nations.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump also intended to sign actions related to military readiness and the National Security Council. Details of those directives were not immediately clear.

According to a draft of the refugee order obtained by The Associated Press, Trump would move to indefinitely stop accepting Syrian refugees. The order also calls for a pause in the nation's broader refugee program for at least 120 days.

Trump campaigned on a pledge to put in place "extreme vetting" procedures particularly for people coming to the U.S. from countries with terrorism ties. According to the draft order, the president plans to suspend issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 30 days.

While at the Pentagon, Trump was expected to meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and attend a ceremonial swearing-in for Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Trump has the authority to determine how many refugees are accepted annually, and he can suspend the program at any time. Refugee processing was suspended in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and restarted months later.

During the past budget year, the U.S. accepted 84,995 refugees, including 12,587 people from Syria. President Barack Obama had set the refugee limit for this budget year at 110,000.

Trump, according to the impending executive order, plans to cut that by more half to 50,000. The draft order says that while the program is suspended, the U.S. may admit people on a case-by-case basis "when in the national interest" and the government will continue to process refugee requests from people claiming religious persecution, "provided that the religion ... is a minority religion in the individual's country." That suggests it would allow the admission of Christians from Muslim-majority countries.

http://time.com/4652010/president-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-phone-call/

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Regarding refugees- Don't just cut it in half. Set up safe zones in their area. They do not appear to successfully assimilate. Most resent us or hate us and separate. Allow them to remain in their home areas. My state, though fighting against it, is due to get many more refugees in the near future if plans go forward.

It is not right to keep allowing in both illegal aliens and refugees who will not leave and they take so much from our nation and citizens.

Now that Russia is doing such a great job in Syria, I think we should stay out of it and let the countries of Syria, Turkey, Russia and Iran decide housing and safety arrangements. Russia actually knows how to do this kind of thing really well, we don't.

Since a border wall would be on our territory it doesn't have anything to do with the economy of Mexico. For that matter all formal trade has always had to go through Customs, either way, anyway.
(Except those empty semi trailers packed with smuggled persons......)

Yeah, Mexico really doesn't have any say in the Wall. There are agreements that affect wildlife and nature so we'll have to make arrangements for that sort of thing to minimize impact. I wish we didn't have to build it but it's clear that we do. Mexico is not a good neighbor, if they were we wouldn't need the wall to begin with. They have only themselves to blame if they don't like it.

Originally Posted by Captainron

Since a border wall would be on our territory it doesn't have anything to do with the economy of Mexico. For that matter all formal trade has always had to go through Customs, either way, anyway.
(Except those empty semi trailers packed with smuggled persons......)

Bill Clinton's NAFTA, this is what it did to the U.S. economy...

U.S.-Mexico trade balance swung from a $1.7 billion U.S. surplus in 1993 to a $54 billion deficit by 2014.

NAFTA #1 killer for the U.S. was the removal of Tariffs/Trade Regulations on all cross border goods and commodities from Mexico into the U.S.

Our stupid, corrupt government officials never took the time to fixed the loop-holes allowing the entire global community to
Bankrupt the U.S. by flowing trade through Mexico into the U.S. by-passing Global U.S. Trade Regulations and Tariffs.

The GFI 2016 Published Report estimates 73.3% of Mexico's Trade Surplus stems from illicit trade practices.

TBML Trade-based money laundering

Yeah, the Bushes and Clintons destroyed our country with NAFTA. It was deliberate, all globalist socialist redistribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who didn't. Sickening.

Good example how China rips the U.S. off.....

I buy/ sell and export New luxury SUV cars to to China. (Range Rover, Mercedes, BMW etc)

China import Tariff on U.S. cars is 150% of the total factory price/value.

Example, Car original MSRP $100,000.00USD + China Tariff $150,000.00USD = $250,000.00USD for the end-buyer in China.
This of coarse makes U.S. goods not affordable to 80% of Chinese consumers which restricts U.S. exports.

MEXICO and Automobile Industry

Pre NAFTA -
U.S. implemented strong import trade restrictions, regulations & high Tariffs on imported cars & steel to
protect our auto industry. Main countries of concern: China, Japan & Korea

After NAFTA -
China steel production and Japan/Korea Auto plants moved to Mexico and by-passed
the protections our government implemented.

And we all know the end result...... U.S. auto and steel industry DIED!

And Mexico thinks they are going to run to China and do deals...LOL

The Chinese will have them for lunch...and will NOT allow Mexico to dump their drugs, gangs, diseases, illegals and problems on them on Chinese soil.

They are really playing with fire if they to not start treating the USA with respect.

Then the Chinese will slaughter them economically.

Estupido

Originally Posted by Beezer

And Mexico thinks they are going to run to China and do deals...LOL

Estupido

China will squash them like a cockroach.