Mexico’s Government Warns U.S.A. to Not Build Border Walls
The Mexican foreign secretary called the plan to build walls along the border a “hostile” and “deeply unfriendly” act, and an “aggravating action.” He warned that Mexico intends to conduct a fierce legal battle to stop any border walls that violate the rights of Mexicans.
Frankly, I don’t give a poop what Mexico is frothing about – if the US wishes to deal with a problem in our country, we should deal with it in our way. Period. If we build a wall, on our soil, that’s our decision. But Mexico wants us to believe that THEY have a say in our wall or not? Do they really believe that we should not have any say or take any action to control our own borders?
And with Trump making noise about re-negotiating or canceling NAFTA, they want to sue the US? With Jeff Session as the US AG? And WHAT “rights” of any Mexican would be violated by us putting up a wall?
Mexico Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray said building any walls when there are already 600 kilometers of barriers is not only a hostile and deeply unfriendly act, but one that “also is not going to fulfill the objectives that it raises, is not only an aggravating action, but it seems to be frankly a bad idea.”
Hostile? No, sending the 101st, the 82nd, or a few tomahawks, or any other military action is a “hostile” act. Unfriendly? What’s unfriendly is that your country is highly corrupt and a lot of that is due to the drug cartels. Tell me, is this the Mexican form of “wag the dog” – diversion from what you won’t do by blithering about us stopping a problem in which you are included?
The foreign secretary said Mexico is planning a legal fight, and it has no intention to pay for any border walls or to cooperate with the U.S. in any way on the development of border walls. “Of course, any kind of financial cooperation or any other way in building the physical barrier between our nations and, of course, an important fundamental limit is not accepting the violation of the human rights of Mexicans in the United States.”
One word: remittances. Sent back to Mexico. Let me say another word: tax. Builds the wall. So yes, Mexico would be paying for the wall. But he does get one thing right – this is not a “bilateral” decision – it is solely ours.
Videgaray charged that any border wall “is not part of a bilateral discussion and should not be, Mexicans should not be part of that discussion, we will not collaborate in any way the construction of something that hurts us, Is apparently an absolute waste of resources.”
And then goes and makes more legal threats. But I thought this quite odd:
“Today in the world there are threats to our paradigms of international coexistence that have been in force for decades. It is undeniable that there are outbreaks of isolationist protectionism, outbursts of nationalism that try to close the world and beyond that, from political actors of very diverse origins in different latitudes, question the principle of global integration.” In the same speech, he said, “first and foremost as it should be,” the United States must recognize Mexico as a sovereign nation.
Umm, the last time I looked, we do just that – but it seems that we aren’t supposed to recognize ourselves as a sovereign nation? One that is allowed to protect our borders? That can set our immigration policies to fit our national needs and policies?
And not yours? Or do you just see the US as an ATM? Oh, he DOES – at the end of the piece, address a remittance taxation plan:
The Mexican foreign secretary threatened that any attempt to tax remittances from the U.S. would be “a break point in any dialogue on other issues.” He called the “flow of foreign exchange” “a fundamental support for many families.” “[F]or Mexico, [it] is a non-negotiable issue,” he charged.
Oh, I get it – Mexico is such an economic basket case that the US is responsible for supporting your citizens? That you can’t figure out how to provide jobs in sufficient quantity and quality to your citizens to make them (and Mexico) self-sufficient?
And who said we were negotiating? Again, that’s up to us – not you.
(H/T: Breitbart Texas)
