If Trump Carries Through on Threat to close ports of entry?

[thereisnospoon]

This should cause Mexico great pain but what else?

It will effect US based companies with locations in Mexico by causing those companies to hold onto goods scheduled for shipment to the US .
Or they can simply pay the extra cost of air cargo.
Quite frankly, if trade between the us and Mexico stopped dead, I'd not lose a moment of sleep.
Save for the tourist areas and parts of Mexico City, Mexico is a third world crime infested dump.
Drug lords run the country. Most of the police departments are on drug cartels payrolls. Unsolved crimes go unchecked.
I think an all out tourism ban for US residents is a better way to punish the Mexican government.
Mexico City laughs at us while they look he other way as people they do not want in their country are given free pass to travel to ours.
Enough.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

It would cause a recession in America.

That's why it won't happen.

That's a bit of a stretch I think. Will it cause temporary pain? Certainly. But you don't refuse to use bandaids because they might hurt when removed.

 

[Vandalshandle]

This should cause Mexico great pain but what else?

It will cause great pain for a lot of Americans but what would closing border actually accomplish?
Would migrants turn around and walk back to Central America?
Would Mexico arrest people that aren't breaking any law?
Would Mexico shelter and feed these people?
Lastly would it reduce illegal immigration?

The answer is obviously no to all the above. What it would do is create a real emergency on southern border and declare to world that the most powerful nation on earth can't protect it's own borders.

The President has said what he expects Mexico to do, build the fence on Mexico's southern border to prevent the Central Americans from crossing Mexico to get to the US border. Obama paid Mexico to put up that fence, but when the caravans came, the Mexicans just stood by while the Central Americans tore down Obama's fence. Clearly, President Trump is demanding Mexico enforce its own border security laws and build the fence and defend it this time.

This should cause Mexico great pain but what else?

It will cause great pain for a lot of Americans but what would closing border actually accomplish?
Would migrants turn around and walk back to Central America?
Would Mexico arrest people that aren't breaking any law?
Would Mexico shelter and feed these people?
Lastly would it reduce illegal immigration?

The answer is obviously no to all the above. What it would do is create a real emergency on southern border and declare to world that the most powerful nation on earth can't protect it's own borders.

The President has said what he expects Mexico to do, build the fence on Mexico's southern border to prevent the Central Americans from crossing Mexico to get to the US border. Obama paid Mexico to put up that fence, but when the caravans came, the Mexicans just stood by while the Central Americans tore down Obama's fence. Clearly, President Trump is demanding Mexico enforce its own border security laws and build the fence and defend it this time.

This should cause Mexico great pain but what else?

It will cause great pain for a lot of Americans but what would closing border actually accomplish?
Would migrants turn around and walk back to Central America?
Would Mexico arrest people that aren't breaking any law?
Would Mexico shelter and feed these people?
Lastly would it reduce illegal immigration?

The answer is obviously no to all the above. What it would do is create a real emergency on southern border and declare to world that the most powerful nation on earth can't protect it's own borders.

The President has said what he expects Mexico to do, build the fence on Mexico's southern border to prevent the Central Americans from crossing Mexico to get to the US border. Obama paid Mexico to put up that fence, but when the caravans came, the Mexicans just stood by while the Central Americans tore down Obama's fence. Clearly, President Trump is demanding Mexico enforce its own border security laws and build the fence and defend it this time.

I am sure that Mexico will build Trump's wall on their southern border, just as soon as they save up enough to send us a check for the wall on our border.

 

[william the wie]

This will be particularly tough on CA and its make believe budget shell game.

 

[Toro]

Border closure could cost billions

"'There’s about a billion dollars of commerce that crosses the border every single day, so every day it’s closed we’re losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars,' he added."

Trump Distraction Syndrome?

We import more than we export so I don't see the problem.

You also don’t understand economics.

 

[Flopper]

This should cause Mexico great pain but what else?

It will cause great pain for a lot of Americans but what would closing border actually accomplish?
Would migrants turn around and walk back to Central America?
Would Mexico arrest people that aren't breaking any law?
Would Mexico shelter and feed these people?
Lastly would it reduce illegal immigration?

The answer is obviously no to all the above. What it would do is create a real emergency on southern border and declare to world that the most powerful nation on earth can't protect it's own borders.

The President has said what he expects Mexico to do, build the fence on Mexico's southern border to prevent the Central Americans from crossing Mexico to get to the US border. Obama paid Mexico to put up that fence, but when the caravans came, the Mexicans just stood by while the Central Americans tore down Obama's fence. Clearly, President Trump is demanding Mexico enforce its own border security laws and build the fence and defend it this time.

Trump's demands that Mexican wall off their southern border or stop migrants approaching the US border should be ignored. It is not their responsibility. The Federal Police do have that authority under Mexican law to stop or detain people that are legally in their country. The fact that Donald Trump can't control illegal immigration is not Mexico's problem.

Trump's promise to build a wall across the southern border and restrict immigration has created a sense of urgency throughout Central America to come to the US now. His promise to close border crossing is sending migrants to to more vulnerable sections of the border which will guarantee more illegal immigration.

There was no national emergency when Trump ceased the money to build a wall but his latest actions will certainly create one.

 

[OldLady]

Border closure could cost billions

"'There’s about a billion dollars of commerce that crosses the border every single day, so every day it’s closed we’re losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars,' he added."

Trump Distraction Syndrome?

We import more than we export so I don't see the problem.

You also don’t understand economics.

Does Trump?

 

[Aldo Raine]

We could arrest the caravan and force them to mix cement for the wall.

Will they pay for it as well?

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.
LOL!

What a fucking idiot.

I hope he does shut the border down, but it's the only way to get through the thick skulls of his supporters: through their jobs and the food on their tables.


""""Mexico is America's third-largest trade partner, and the two economies are deeply intertwined, with $558 billion in goods crossing the border in two-way trade last year alone. The Commerce Department estimated that in 2015, nearly 100,000 American jobs were supported by goods trade with Mexico.

If the border were to be shut down, experts say, the consequences would be immediate.

“The first thing you’d start to see is a spike in car prices and factories in trouble,” said Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas program.

A huge portion of American trade with Mexico deals in parts, so shutting the border would immediately throw a wrench into the auto supply chain, as well as other manufacturing.

Another major casualty would be agriculture, which would hit farm states already facing a squeeze from a trade war with China.

Miles noted that corn and soybean exports to Mexico are big business for farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana.

American consumers would see the difference at the supermarket, said Wilson.

Many foods such as avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and a variety of berries come to the United State by way of Mexico."""
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/423150-border-closure-could-cost-billions
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[BluesLegend]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Hopefully it will be a wake up call to you fucking idiot Dimocrats who refuse to admit we have a fucking crisis.

At least one Obama era sec has the guts to break away from the Dimocrat border narrative:

Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: ‘We Are Truly in a Crisis’ on the Border
by Julio Rosas | Mar 29th, 2019, 3:17 pm 938


Former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told Morning Joe on Friday the high number of migrants being appended at the U.S.-Mexico border shows it is a crisis.

Johnson said when he oversaw the department, he would be put in a bad mood if over 1,000 people were appended at the border in a given day. Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said they had detained more than 4,100 migrants on Tuesday.

Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: ‘We Are Truly in a Crisis’ on the Border

 

[jknowgood]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.
LOL!

What a fucking idiot.

I hope he does shut the border down, but it's the only way to get through the thick skulls of his supporters: through their jobs and the food on their tables.


""""Mexico is America's third-largest trade partner, and the two economies are deeply intertwined, with $558 billion in goods crossing the border in two-way trade last year alone. The Commerce Department estimated that in 2015, nearly 100,000 American jobs were supported by goods trade with Mexico.

If the border were to be shut down, experts say, the consequences would be immediate.

“The first thing you’d start to see is a spike in car prices and factories in trouble,” said Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas program.

A huge portion of American trade with Mexico deals in parts, so shutting the border would immediately throw a wrench into the auto supply chain, as well as other manufacturing.

Another major casualty would be agriculture, which would hit farm states already facing a squeeze from a trade war with China.

Miles noted that corn and soybean exports to Mexico are big business for farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana.

American consumers would see the difference at the supermarket, said Wilson.

Many foods such as avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and a variety of berries come to the United State by way of Mexico."""
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/423150-border-closure-could-cost-billions
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Well we can thank Pelosi and Schumer for this. Trump ran on the border and they block him every chance they can. If they cared about our security, this wouldn't happen.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.
LOL!

What a fucking idiot.

I hope he does shut the border down, but it's the only way to get through the thick skulls of his supporters: through their jobs and the food on their tables.


""""Mexico is America's third-largest trade partner, and the two economies are deeply intertwined, with $558 billion in goods crossing the border in two-way trade last year alone. The Commerce Department estimated that in 2015, nearly 100,000 American jobs were supported by goods trade with Mexico.

If the border were to be shut down, experts say, the consequences would be immediate.

“The first thing you’d start to see is a spike in car prices and factories in trouble,” said Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas program.

A huge portion of American trade with Mexico deals in parts, so shutting the border would immediately throw a wrench into the auto supply chain, as well as other manufacturing.

Another major casualty would be agriculture, which would hit farm states already facing a squeeze from a trade war with China.

Miles noted that corn and soybean exports to Mexico are big business for farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana.

American consumers would see the difference at the supermarket, said Wilson.

Many foods such as avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and a variety of berries come to the United State by way of Mexico."""
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/423150-border-closure-could-cost-billions
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I was going to say that apparently they did not teach Economics at that school for the elite, that Trump attended. On second thought, they may have, but Trump did not learn anything, which is more likely.

 

[TNHarley]

So you think it will harm the country but you want him to do it anyway, for partisan bullshit?
You are fucking pathetic

 

[ABikerSailor]

Remember when Trump completely shut down the border for 5 hours last year? That cost the San Yisidro area over 5 million dollars.

Sunday Border Closure Costs San Ysidro Businesses $5.3 Million

Sunday’s five-hour border closure turned out to have a significant impact on South Bay businesses.

The shutdown came during Black Friday weekend, typically recognized as the busiest shopping weekend of the year.

According to Jason Wells, executive director of the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce, there was an estimated one-day loss of $5.3 million for the more than 700 businesses that are members of the chamber.

He said 75 percent of the businesses closed the entire day, and that included stores at the Las Americas Outlets of San Ysidro.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

None of that happened when Bush shut the border down. Mexico had a few pains but we never did.

That border should have been shut down a year ago. The situation at that border is out of control. The cities along the border are at the breaking point and more are coming. We cannot tolerate this kind of invasion. There are no jobs or housing. Medical care and food is strained to the point of breaking. End it now.

 

[francoHFW]

Hopefully it will be a wake up call to you fucking idiot Dimocrats who refuse to admit we have a fucking crisis.

At least one Obama era sec has the guts to break away from the Dimocrat border narrative:

Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: ‘We Are Truly in a Crisis’ on the Border
by Julio Rosas | Mar 29th, 2019, 3:17 pm 938


Former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told Morning Joe on Friday the high number of migrants being appended at the U.S.-Mexico border shows it is a crisis.

Johnson said when he oversaw the department, he would be put in a bad mood if over 1,000 people were appended at the border in a given day. Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said they had detained more than 4,100 migrants on Tuesday..

Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: ‘We Are Truly in a Crisis’ on the Border

Everyone realizes there is a crisis now duh... It just started the last month or two. Great job! Pass a national ID card, enforce it and end this GOP scam forever, like other modern countries have already done....

 

[ABikerSailor]

None of that happened when Bush shut the border down. Mexico had a few pains but we never did.

That border should have been shut down a year ago. The situation at that border is out of control. The cities along the border are at the breaking point and more are coming. We cannot tolerate this kind of invasion. There are no jobs or housing. Medical care and food is strained to the point of breaking. End it now.

Post 7 has a link that shows how bad it got when Trump completely shut down the border last year. It cost the San Yisidro area 5 million dollars for the 5 hours that it was completely shut down.

 

[OldLady]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.
LOL!

What a fucking idiot.

I hope he does shut the border down, but it's the only way to get through the thick skulls of his supporters: through their jobs and the food on their tables.


""""Mexico is America's third-largest trade partner, and the two economies are deeply intertwined, with $558 billion in goods crossing the border in two-way trade last year alone. The Commerce Department estimated that in 2015, nearly 100,000 American jobs were supported by goods trade with Mexico.

If the border were to be shut down, experts say, the consequences would be immediate.

“The first thing you’d start to see is a spike in car prices and factories in trouble,” said Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas program.

A huge portion of American trade with Mexico deals in parts, so shutting the border would immediately throw a wrench into the auto supply chain, as well as other manufacturing.

Another major casualty would be agriculture, which would hit farm states already facing a squeeze from a trade war with China.

Miles noted that corn and soybean exports to Mexico are big business for farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana.

American consumers would see the difference at the supermarket, said Wilson.

Many foods such as avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and a variety of berries come to the United State by way of Mexico."""
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/423150-border-closure-could-cost-billions
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The hell with lettuce; what about my OREO'S!!!!!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Democrats must love tent camps covering city sidewalks and streets. They must love (we know they love) the bloody gangs. They want so much more.