It was one of several raids here last week to sweep up migrants, part of a broad Mexican crackdown against the surge of Central Americans and others streaming toward the United States. In recent weeks, the Mexican authorities have been breaking up migrant caravans and setting up round-the-clock roadblocks along common routes north.
Detentions and deportations in Mexico are multiplying quickly, sowing fear among the many thousands of Central Americans and others crowding the migrant shelters and budget hotels here in southern Mexico, most of them hoping to reach the American border.
The Mexican government has been under intense pressure from President Trump to block the tens of thousands of undocumented migrants trudging north each month. With the American authorities unable to stop illegal immigration into the United States, Mr. Trump has taken aim at countries in the region — including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the origins of most of the migration — threatening punishment unless they to do more…
In April, nearly 15,000 migrants were deported by Mexico, up from about 9,100 in March, according to government statistics. The monthly tally climbed even higher in May. Over the last two months, the Lopez Obrador administration deported 67 percent more migrants than its predecessor did during the same period in 2018.
But but but…we’re going to have to pay more!
Chipotle could raise burrito prices by 5¢ if Mexico tariffs become permanent https://t.co/VDVGNrsH9k pic.twitter.com/lDIgapME6U
— FOX 12 Oregon KPTV (@fox12oregon) June 3, 2019
Oh, in other news President Trump’s UK trip, the trip the MSM and NeverTrumpers breathlessly predicted would be a disaster, has turned out to be anything but.
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The left wing media does nothing but criticize. Lately, to remain critical, they have to lie even more than usual. They have been hammering everything from Melania’s wardrobe (she was stunning, as usual) to simply pretending Trump would be a disaster based on their false characterizations they have invented themselves. No, Trump did not imagine The Queen would want to sit around and listen to his speeches and gave her a ipod full of them (no doubt THAT got tossed immediately) nor did he hop up to make a toast before “God Save The Queen” was finished playing. Both were Obama faux pas, which of course got little reportage.
Stupid Schumer tried desperately to calm Mexico’s fears of tariffs forcing them to properly maintain their side of the borders, telling them Trump was just “bluffing”. No, he’s not bluffing; he is deadly serious about stopping illegal immigration and protecting American citizens; if only Democrats had the same dedication.
@Deplorable Me: Melania always looks stunning, the visit was not met with the massive protests the media drooled for. Highly ceremonial. The media has a microscope on him looking for anything to attack and spin into an international incident.
The First couple presented Queen Elizabeth with a Tiffany & Co. silver and silk poppy brooch with a custom, White House wood jewelry container placed inside a red leather box. Its no I-Pod but what can you expect?
@kitt:
And when they can’t find it, they simply make it up. It will be long remembered how Democrats put their own quest for power ahead of the good of the country.
Oh… and the Mexican military is rounding up illegal immigrants. They seem to take Trump’s threats seriously, though they will probably, again, simply back off after Trump praises them for their action.
@Deplorable Me: He bluffing lol they know better. The GOP and DNC should stop trying to knee cap Trump. Sometimes it only takes a bit of arm twisting or the suggestion of arm twisting. Dont expect the media will cover this extensively looks to much like he did a good thing strong arming our southern neighbor.
Mexico folds.
@Deplorable Me: But, the left will find something to criticize!
@Randy: Pelosi already criticized Trump for being mean to Mexico after they have been nice enough to grant transit through their country for hundreds of thousands of poverty and disease-stricken illegal immigrants for the American taxpayer to support. No doubt that same level of intelligence will continue.
June 8, 2019 — Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal
No doubt a few people cleaned up by grabbing shares at the bottom of the 1000 point drop in the DOW precipitated by Trump’s Mexican tariff threat. I wonder who knew Mexico had already agreed to the terms we accepted to call the whole thing off? We’ll never know.
@Greg: If they agreed to it months ago why did we get record numbers of border invaders? Could be they needed encouragement to begin the crack down and Trump gave them that encouragement.
@Greg: I guess you never noticed, but Mexico never DID anything, regardless of what the agreed to or when. Since Trump announced the tariffs, Mexico has deployed their military to not only round up illegal immigrants but to arrest those the left are supporting to promote the caravans of illegal immigrants flooding our border.
One thing is for absolutely certain; the Democrats are doing NOTHING but obstructing any efforts to protect American citizens. It seems no Democrat nor anyone that supports Democrats care one whit about the safety of US citizens; they only want to make trouble for Trump and US citizens being hurt or killed means NOTHING to these despicable Democrats.
@kitt, #9:
What an excellent question. I also wonder.
@Greg: Border patrol forced to put 80 people in spaces designed for 12, when are the Democrats going to get to work and stop complaining when Trump does something about it?
@kitt: Because it took Trump threatening tariffs on them to get them off their asses.
You’re missing the whole point of the Democrats blocking every effort to secure the border; they NEED to complain about it, especially since the media will not pin the blame of the very Democrats doing the complaining.
Late Sunday, June 9, 2019 — Trump raises specter of imposing ‘very profitable’ new tariffs on Mexico despite deal breakthrough
But then he could always strategically unreimpose them, as the occasion demands.
Is the goal to get us all to stop paying attention, having at last realized that we won’t know what the hell is really going on even if we do?
If that’s it, I think it’s beginning to work.
@Greg:
Yes, Trump’s efforts are working, on many fronts. Don’t forget how he essentially killed Obamacare, by ending the fine. That alone was the issue, and it’s gone.
He’s so successful, the only thing the Democrats have is this petty issue of his tax returns. What losers. They have nothing else. Too bad we can’t open Obama’s records, which were carefully sealed before he ran (wonder what he was hiding?).
For a president living in a country where Democrats get to break major laws and not get punished, and be able to use government agencies to attack their political enemies, Don has performed beyond incredibly.
The Democrats actually believe doubling down on tax returns and obstruction will yield something. So pathetic.
@Greg:
You don’t understand much, do you? No, of course you don’t; you think “brilliant negotiations” is paying a terrorist-supporting adversary billions of dollars and removing all the sanction leverage for the honor of accepting their terms BEFORE they have complied with any of the terms.
Mexico has a nasty habit of agreeing to help curb illegal immigration and then lose interest later. What Trump is saying is if they don’t comply with the terms of the deal and KEEP complying, tariffs will return. And, yes, HE has the power to remove them if they comply. It’s called “smart“. It’s called LEADERSHIP. It’s been a while since we had any.
@Nathan Blue:
Talk about trying to draw attention away from the REAL issues!! Democrats are desperate to keep American’s eyes off of Trump’s successes, US growth and prosperity and the exposure of their failed coup.
Now they are pissed at Ginsburg because she praised Kavanaugh for having an all female staff. Well, we tried to tell you stupid, petty, whiny, bitter, biased, bigoted, prejudiced, vindictive liberals you were wrong about Kavanaugh. You were just to blinded by hate to listen.
“What Trump is saying is if they don’t comply with the terms of the deal and KEEP complying, tariffs will return. And, yes, HE has the power to remove them if they comply. It’s called “smart“. It’s called LEADERSHIP.”
In the real world, it’s called BULLSHIT. Most folks have figured that out by now.
When are you going to stop allowing this conman to play you for a sucker?
Do you think Korea is denuclearizing as well?
@Gary Miller:
Really? So why did Mexico crumble? Because they thought it was “bullshit”?
Even though Schumer and Pelosi did everything they could to convince Mexico to take the tariffs hit and help them by keeping the flow of illegal immigrants coming, they decided it was in their best interests to do their job and police the illegal immigrant problem on their side of the border. Seems only those FULL of bullshit thought it was bullshit.
Maybe you need to dig the bullshit out of your ears and gather up some reality.
No, it doesn’t appear N. Korea is denuclearizing. Has Trump reduced any of the sanctions on N. Korea? See how that works? Oh… you don’t. You can’t understand facts, only leftist propaganda. Sorry.
Speaking of being played for a sucker, have you wondered what happened to all that “mountain” of evidence your beloved liberals in government and media SWORE they had readily available and at their fingertips proving Trump colluded with the Russians to win his election? Where did all that go? WHEN are you going to realize that your representatives think you are nothing but a stupid, gullible idiot?
@Gary Miller: Actually, Mexico agreed to performing these services in the trade agreement they signed with Trump. That is the agreement that is much better for the US than NAFTA that Congress refuses to approve, likely because Trump, not Obama negotiated it.
@Randy: Keep in mind that Democrats want to see the US torn down in order for socialism to look more attractive and desirable. As long as we are prosperous and growing, the Democrat’s agenda does not look so attractive, so they do all they can to block Trump from expanding the growth and prosperity and denounce every accomplishment.
To date, Democrats are on record obstructing everything that would reduce and control illegal immigration; arresting and deporting criminal illegal immigrants, ending sanctuary cities, denying taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants, preventing illegal immigrants from voting, building the wall, more detention beds, holding those seeking asylum outside of the United States and reforming immigration laws. Their open obstruction to any and all of this, though it endangers and burdens US citizens, is all for the purpose of denying Trump any success. Yet, he succeeds anyway.
@Deplorable Me:
“Really? So why did Mexico crumble? Because they thought it was “bullshit”?”
For goodness sake, there was no crumbling. Trump declared “victory” over a post-dated agreement. As usual, it’s total bullshit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/us/politics/trump-mexico-deal-tariffs.html
“No, it doesn’t appear N. Korea is denuclearizing.”
Then why did Trump declare a year ago that denuclearizing would be happening quickly?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-north-koreas-denuclearization-process-starting-very-quickly
Because it’s an administration based on total BS.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word “demagoguery?”
@Gary Miller:
No, it isn’t bullshit. No deal had been signed and Mexico had not been doing anything to curb the flow of illegal immigration. Only after Trump’s credible threat of imposing tariffs did they begin to act and sign agreements. Meanwhile, Democrats (like you) do nothing but encourage our adversaries to oppose us. Why don’t you MOVE to Mexico so you can cheer for the home team?
Oh, I don’t know… because they SAID they would, they stopped missile and nuclear tests and they closed a nuclear site?
No, Gary…. YOU are bullshit. You are steaming, sticky bullshit. Total, through and through. You hate this nation so much you are satisfied to see it destroyed so the left can gain power. I find THAT bullshit and disgusting.
Trump leads, you and the Democrats only obstruct and you support our enemies because they have more in common with your goals than America’s.
@Gary Miller: You are right it was negotiated in March thats why they were still talking while Trump was honoring the 75th anniversary of D-Day. It was signed and all settled totally complete. Thats why the media quickly came up with their narrative on how much it was going to cost the average family and Chucky was saying Trump was bluffing. Cause they were already fully complying, it was all done for Trump to just say there was some fake crisis and squeak in a victory lap for the cameras. Sure Gary Congress has been working on a solution for the border invasion and nothing else.
Now go soak your head admit that Trump and his people did a good thing and have yourself a good cry.
@Nathan Blue:
Trump removed the penalty mechanism that was designed to discourage those who are financially able to purchase their own health insurance from freeloading off the system. Such deadbeats run up costs to the taxpayer, as well as the individual and family premium costs that more responsible people pay.
He didn’t end Obamacare, however. That would require taking political responsibility for the consequences, when republicans have absolutely nothing in the way of a viable replacement. There were actually over 8 million new ACA enrollments during the 2019 open enrollment season.
Your very stable genius and master negotiator has created a situation that’s guaranteed to increase both public healthcare costs borne by the taxpayer and individual health insurance premiums. These are the predictable results of disincentivizing new enrollments by people who have the personal means to pay, while allowing those who do not have such means to continue to do so.
Since the GOP can’t grasp the idea that sufficient taxes must be collected to pay the bills, the rising public healthcare costs will take the form of more rapidly escalating deficits and more rapidly rising debt. The rising premium costs will be harder to hide. They’ll almost certainly deal with that by blaming Obamacare, and yammer about how much better their own imaginary replacement will be. How many times have we seen this movie already?
@Greg: Trump did not remove the penalty congress did, our Republican representatives, Trump signed it.
Democrat Congress outlawed low affordable deductibles, and choice for everyone, and Obama signed it. Then Obama became Mr Pen and Phone dictator delaying the most politically damaging parts. AHCA was a redistribution scam, doctors pulling sheets of paper out of the drawer and saying this is what you have, this is what we will do, no individual health care, you became a “condition”, not a patient.
Big Pharma lap dances determined what you were prescribed, dont cure the condition, if it caused pain, then an opiate was the answer.
@Gary Miller: Do you have any idea what is happening in the world? Do you understand even a little bit of what Trump is doing? Do you understand how China and N. Korea are linked? Do you understand why Trump has visited Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam and other Asian countries? I would hope that you responses are due to your being ignorant as to what is happening in the world. If not, then your responses are just stupid because you are so engrossed in your ideology.
@Deplorable Me:
“Only after Trump’s credible threat of imposing tariffs did they begin to act and sign agreements.”
There are signed agreements now? Because Trump said so? And of course, you take the bait and believe him.
There are no signed agreements.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/us/politics/immigration-mexico-deal-trump.html
“They stopped missile and nuclear tests and they closed a nuclear site?”
North Korea is indeed conducting nuclear tests.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-north-korea-missile-tests-un-resolutions-violation-john-bolton-1437924
http://theconversation.com/north-korea-is-firing-missiles-again-does-diplomacy-still-have-a-chance-116956
See how this is done? I make a point and back it up with one or two links. You should try it.
“It was signed and all settled totally complete.@kitt:
Stop making shit up.
@Randy:
I understand that if he were selling Miracle No-Stick Skillets on late night cable TV as he should be, every Trump supporter would now own 3 or 4 of them.
That’s what he’s doing.
@Greg: Well Greg, you sure show your ignorance. I doubt you were intelligent enough to be a potato peeler. You likely were in charge of the burn out latrines. So far, Trump has accomplished more than Obama did in 8 years.
@Gary Miller: It was sarcasm you ignoramus.
North Korea is indeed conducting nuclear tests. now who is making things up?
@Gary Miller:
Why can’t you stop being a goddamn liar? SHOW ME where they are conducting nuclear tests. They’ve done nothing but fire short range, tactical weapons.
Not only that, but Un has punished the negotiators that failed to reach a deal in Hanoi, indicating he is creating an excuse to reopen and continue talks. He is blaming THEM for the failed negotiations, not his refusal to accept terms. He is still hungry for a deal. Also note that Trump has not given up ONE THING to get N. Korea to talk. Not until they actually do something substantive will Trump concede anything to them, not give up everything up front on a promise, like Obama did. See, Trump wants the deal more than he wants media praise, which he wouldn’t get anyway.
Oh. Where’s your link showing N. Korea has conducted a nuclear test? Or, are you simply LYING, something that a liberal finds absolutely necessary to support their leftist points?
Yeah, I believe Trump way before I would believe you. He actually has some credibility.
@Deplorable Me:
“In truth, the peace never got very far. The North has spent the past year producing more nuclear material and fashioning an unknown quantity of it into new weapons, American intelligence agencies told Congress in late January.”
This is in no way denuclearizing, another canard you actually bought into.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/world/asia/trump-north-korea-missile-tests.html
@Gary Miller: Uranium enrichment isnt nuclear testing, you made nuclear testing up in your own widdle tiny brain.
@kitt:
@kitt:
It was sarcasm? Sure it was.
Let me give you a bit of advice. When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
“Uranium enrichment isnt nuclear testing”
Are you going to assert now that uranium enrichment is part of North Korea’s denuclearization program? That’s what Trump told America, that North Korea would quickly be denuclearizing. Nothing but bullshit.
North Korea is not denuclearizing. There is no signed agreement with Mexico. Anyone who thinks that Trump is going to impose tariffs needs to have their head examined.
@Gary Miller: Let’s see… I believe you were in the process of schooling me on the art of making a statement and then backing it up with a source. But, apparently, we got disconnected; were is this source citing that N. Korea was still carrying out nuclear tests or even testing long-range weapons?
Good advice. Why don’t you heed it?
@Gary Miller: Yes sarcasm as it was first the press that brought up the meetings,(Greg posted it above)meetings that yielded nothing, then when tariffs were threatened the meetings got serious and Mexico actually did something, the tariffs are still an option we will see if 130K invaders slip through in the coming month.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/10/30/report-mexico-providing-professional… that from late last year, no wonder they were supposedly walking over 1500 miles and showing up at the border some 100 lbs over weight. Starving while checking brand new fully charged cell phones, in designer t-shirts. Did you think I was serious about congress working on solving the border crisis…really.. honk honk.
Got busted in a lie, you mad?
@Deplorable Me:
So you too believe that producing nuclear material is part of North Korea’s denuclearization program? Got it.
@kitt:
” … then when tariffs were threatened the meetings got serious and Mexico actually did something .. .”
There is no signed agreement with Mexico. You just make this shit up.
“… the tariffs are still an option … ”
Oh of course they are.
@Gary Miller: Hey dude honk honk
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@Gary Miller:
No, you don’t “got it” because you are a lying idiot.
Go up to #18 and see what I said about denuclearization. That’s called “honesty” and “adhering to facts”. Now, see your accusation in #27,
That’s what you refer to a “bullshit”, also known as a bold-face lie. You lied. You are a liar. Then, to compound it, you lack the guts to admit it. And your assertion that enriching uranium is the same as nuclear testing shows how stupid you are by thinking such stupidity will convince anyone here.
So, provide your evidence that N. Korea has been conducting nuclear tests since the meetings with Trump or admit you are either lying or stupid.
See how it’s done, you lying, bottom-dwelling liberal idiot?
@Deplorable Me:
My apologies, Deplorable Me. In post 18, you did say that North Korea was not denuclearizing, acknowledging that Trump was full of shit on that one.
@Gary Miller: Yes he was wrong but not the only one https://www.theepochtimes.com/kim-jong-un-agrees-to-denuclearize-north-korea-china..
Cant trust those short fat guys with goofy haircuts
But sometimes it doesnt work out so good for those that do, Ukraine relinquished its arsenal for a promise of security that didn’t hold up. Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014 and has supported Ukrainian separatists in the eastern part of the country, near the border with Russia.
There’s also the cautionary tale of a pair of dictators — Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi — who gave up their nuclear programs before acquiring a bomb, that didn’t save them.
After 70 years the heads of NK and SK are chatting, its a good sign.
@Gary Miller: What we are acknowledging is that YOU are full of shit. Liberal shit, which is the worst kind. We are also acknowledging you are a liar, since shutting down testing and ending nuclear testing IS denuclearizing, but no one ever said he was denuclearized.
Now, what about that proof that N. Korea has been conducting tests? One last try.
North Korea’s most recent nuclear test was on September 3, 2017, when they detonated a device underground that produced a yield estimated as high as 280 kilotons. The Hiroshima device yielded only 15 kilotons. Their last two tests may have been either fusion bombs, as they claim, or enhanced-yield fission bombs.
They have the data and technology they need to produce nuclear weapons. Why would anyone assume they aren’t doing so? They aren’t likely to have given up their 50-year goal of becoming a nuclear power at the point of attaining it. Thinking they have done is a dangerous delusion.
@Gary Miller: Actually there is a signed agreement called United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that addresses the immigration issues. I told you this before. Mexico has not complied with the immigration clauses. That likely is due to congress not supporting the President and their failure to approve the document. The left resisting everything Trump does no matter the value is preventing our economy, defense and quality of life from becoming even better. The left’s warped ideology has set this country back decades . Your comments here are a good example of how out of touch the left is with what is happening in the world today. I remember little children who didn’t get their way acting this way, but until now, never supposed adults. Why would any person or organization purposely sabotage their own country to get even with a potential slight? Is there no patriots on the left any more? Is there no one on the left willing to sacrifice themselves or something to forward this nation? Is the left completely depraved or is there some hope?
@Greg: Trump understands Un cannot be trusted but he deals differently than the previous admin https://www.hudson.org/research/8765-obama-s-victory-with-north-korea
The media was more than willing to call his feeding the NK army, with nothing in return a victory.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-north-korea-obama…
Why shoulnt Un think he is dealing with a bunch of totally moronic fools.
@Randy:
Randy, it’s time to give the bullshit a rest. There is no signed agreement stemming from last week. The USMCA, from last November, is unenforceable and worthless.
Trump is a conman. Every businessman in New York who got screwed over by this guy has known this for years. The tariff threat is more bullshit. Stop letting this buffoon play you for a sucker.
@Gary Miller: If you were more knowledgeable, you would know it was in the original document you are beyond ignorant. You are actually stupid but pretending to know something. Did you get past 6th grade?
@Gary Miller: Where is that proof of a N. Korean nuclear test?