Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico drew red lines on Tuesday ahead of negotiations with US President Donald Trump’s administration, warning it could quit the talks and a major trade pact if the discussions hit a wall.
During the US election campaign, Trump vowed to make Mexico pay for a massive border wall and threatened to finance it by tapping into the $25 billion in remittances that Mexican migrants sent back home last year.
“There are very clear red lines that must be drawn from the start,” Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told the Televisa network as he prepares to meet with US officials in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday.
Asked whether the Mexican delegation would walk away from the negotiating table if the wall and remittances are an issue, Guajardo said: “Absolutely.”
Guajardo and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray will hold the face-to-face talks with the new US administration ahead of a meeting between Trump and President Enrique Pena Nieto on January 31. more here
“Asked whether the Mexican delegation would walk away from the negotiating table if the wall and remittances are an issue, Guajardo said: “Absolutely.”
Those are absolutely issues, Guajardo. Mexico will not be negotiating from a pedestal courtesy of RINOs and leftists this time. They will be bargaining from the bottom of a hole, and Trump has the rope. If they choose to piss up that rope intead of pay to be pulled up, that’s their loss, not ours.
It sounds like they will definitely hit the wall!🇺🇸
Hey Mexico, beggers can’t be choosy!!!
Raise Mexico to second world levels and we’ll talk.
Till then…..
Hahahahaha!
This is like a ten-year old kid saying that if he doesn’t get a raise in his allowance, you can KEEP your stinky old allowance.
That’ll show ’em !!
Am I the only one who remembers when Clinton&Gore pushed for NAFTA they said Mexico’s economy will be so much better, illegals wouldn’t have to come to the US for work?
Didn’t quite work out that way.
So that’s where obongo’s red crayons went. I was wondering about that.
The river we were sold down has run dry.
America needs Mexico like a fish needs a bicycle.
Come to think of it, I kinda like the idea of an Anglo-Centric Worldwide Alliance and let the rest of the muddle-headed world stew in their own juices.
Yeah, I know … “isolationist!” Boo-fucking-Hoo!
We’ve fed these parasites since the end of WWI … enough is enough.
izlamo delenda est …
Yeah well Rubio was tough talking a week ago about not voting for Tillerson and how did that work out when the rubber hit the road… of course they talk a big game. So did Obama with his red line he kept moving.
This is called “posturing”. A little late though. When the person you’re negotiating with’s starting position is “we’re building a wall, you’re paying for it and we’re bringing back all our jobs” you can’t be real excited about the eventual outcome.
Withdraw all foreign aid to Mexico until the wall is paid for. Easy peasy.
Wanna play hardball?
Deport illegal Mexicans, Central and South Americans through the Mexican Border, prohibit US funds being transferred to Mexico, impose huge tariffs on Mexican companies exporting goods and services to the US.
Then let’s start talking about NAFTA and the Wall.
Since the money earned in the US is very likely earned illegally by day labor, it is within the rights of the US Treasury to tax those outgoing funds.
To the tune of eighty percent.
Hmm, build a wall to keep their own citizens on their side of the border. No more US jobs to send money back to them. No more American companies transporting across the border to give them jobs. A huge remittance tax on money wired across the border. US energy policy opening up the pipelines, no need for what oil Mexico produces.
So exactly what does Mexico have to gain here? Nothing but everything to lose. Just like a choice the freeloaders will have to make soon. You can either get a job and get less EBT benefits or you can lose all your EBT benefits altogether. Keep your stinking job? Bwhahahah
If Mexico withdraws from NAFTA then the US and Canada can fall back to a version of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement that was in play before. If Trump goes ahead with the wall (or some sort of similar method of protecting the border that works) then remittances or not Mexico may become a failed state with the Narco’s in open warfare with what is passing for the government for areas of Mexico. This may not be a bad thing as a tight border will drastically drop the amount of drugs entering the US from Mexico while at the same time cutting back on the drug money being shipped to the Narco’s. Mexico may be able to destroy them (if they really want to) and start on the long road back to a true democratic country. In any event I would suggest that the People living along the border arm themselves (taking the lessons needed) to defend themselves as it could get very messy.
Make deportations self funding. ild higantic trebuchets that launch the illegal into the shallows of the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Pay for view; and offer citizens the ability to ‘pull’ the lever for a slight $ amount….
Make deportations self funding. Build gigantic trebuchets that launch the illegal into the shallows of the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Pay for view; and offer citizens the ability to ‘pull’ the lever for a slight $ amount….
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out of the negotiation room. Buh-bye!
scr_north JANUARY 25, 2017 AT 11:26 AM
“If Mexico withdraws from NAFTA then the US and Canada can fall back to a version of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement that was in play before.”
Canada needs to keep their musllims, no exporting them here.
Apparently Mexico forgot the message sent when we kicked their asses back to Mexico City back in the 1830’s.
Sure, let’s play the “hurt me, hurt you” game – who you think’s gonna win?
Hit the brinks jackasses. That $25 billion in remittances would go a long way toward job creation in this country if it were spent here.
@Perspective; in fairness we don’t have that many although we have a lot more now that Trudeau the Younger is in power along with the rest of the Liberal Party dicks both Federally and Provincially. There is a little light on the horizon though, the screwup is screwing up at a faster rate now so by the next election if the Conservative Party can get a good leader they may get tossed out and Trudeau can go back to his first career, bar bouncer and student.
Maybe that means Mexico, not the US, will have empty, shuttered car factories for a change?
@scr_north
I shouldn’t have said that. Now Canada will expect us to keep our libs. Crap. 🙂
I hoope that light on the horizon becomes a bright sunny day for Canada and the U.S.