Mexican president reveals U.S. concession Trump failed to mention as tariffs paused

[happyskullsplitter@lemmy.world]

More guns flow into Mexico than flow into the U.S. — a fact that Vice President J.D. Vance was corrected on during the vice-presidential debate.

Hey, hey, hey now!

You guys said you weren't going to fact check

[xmunk@sh.itjust.works]

Just the media showing their lib'ruhl bias again. I wonder why facts seem to be so biased against good stolid conservative values.

[n0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Honestly, that’s not a bad deal. The US gets fentanyl enforcement. Mexico gets the flow of guns slowed, which weakens the cartels.

The tariff thing was a silly dance to get there, though. Makes me wonder if that wasn’t market manipulation. Knowing the tariffs would hit in the morning, then get lifted before enforcement would have made it very easy to play the market for a ton of money.

[undearius@lemmy.ca]

I hope the US agreed to the same thing for Canada, too.

Pretty much all of Canada's gun crimes are committed with weapons smuggled in from the States.

[badhops@sh.itjust.works]

but... the Mexican government already had the troops on the border. Biden did that in 2021.. so nothing new there. Most Fentanyl is smuggled in my US citizens as they are not scrutinized as much as a Mexican citizen coming in legally or illegally. So again not much of a win..
seems like a tantrum that is planned to set him and his wealthy friends to swoop in

[jdnewmil@lemmy.ca]

So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.

[takeda@lemm.ee]

Regarding fentanyl, trump did everything except actually address it. Why not impose sanctions on Chinese pharmaceutical companies? Improve regulations to allow tracking of fentanyl ingredients (which are legal), create a task force that would trace suppliers and help impose more sanctions.

[miak@lemmy.world]

Or they could have addressed both fentanyl in the US and the cartels in Mexico by just agreeing to end the war on drugs...

[shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one]

Except the US would giving up the current source of slave labor by stopping the war on drugs.

[cabron_offsets@lemmy.world]

Trump emerges from this fiasco looking like the bitch that he is.

[happyskullsplitter@lemmy.world]

Facts are just there to prove people wrong

It's just impolite

[johnnycanuck@lemmy.ca]

This is what I fucking said Trudeau should do.

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

The majority of illegal immigrants comes over legally through ports of entry and just out stay their visas. Mexico is laughing as the pretend to send 10,000 troops to boarder to watch dirt.

[sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip]

https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-honduras-mexico-immigration-border-patrols-917c0fea87c0a807b371da207d34c8cc

April 12, 2021:

According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Mexico will maintain a deployment of about 10,000 troops...

Mexico announced in March that it was deploying National Guard members and immigration agents to its southern border, and it has maintained more personnel at its southern border since Trump threatened tariffs on Mexican imports in 2019.

Unless someone can find a source that states that Mexico ever withdrew their 10k troops during the last 3 years... yeah, they already had 10k troops on their southern border, they've... just been redeployed to their northern border.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

As is tradition, your mistake is in assuming he actually wants to help anyone

[marcos@lemmy.world]

Almost nothing of the US fentanyl gets in through Mexico...

[marcos@lemmy.world]

to watch dirt

Nah. Those people will have a lot to do stopping weapons smuggling into Mexico.

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

The weapons are purchased legally by Americans and simply driven over. Also through legal ports of entry. It's not this complicated process.

[jimmycakes@lemmy.world]

Where do you get yours from.

[swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

How do you figure? From my understanding China and other places make precursor ingredients which are then manufactured in the field in Latin America. Are you saying the vast majority is fentanyl manufactured in China and shipped directly to the US?