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

[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?

[deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz]

simply driven over

That's called smuggling.

[cultsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Isn't this mostly just for show for his base anyway? "See! I'm doing what I said I'd do!"

[shplane@lemmy.world]

Right but the previous commenter is saying adding 10k troops isn’t going to impact the existing ways those guns are smuggled into Mexico. They’d have to stop and search every car which I would require a lot more people at the border

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

Export guns, import people.

[marcos@lemmy.world]

There has been lots of well published studies in the US last year. Well published enough to catch on the international press.

Most of their fentanyl seems to be smuggled out of their chemical and drug industries.