Mexican Standoff, American Backbone

On June 7th, 2019, the US and Mexico signed a joint declaration to address the Illegal immigration situation at our southern border. In the previous week, President Trump announced that Mexico needs to start doing something to stem the flow of migrants coming mainly from Guatemala, San Salvador and Honduras. The president said that starting on June 10, 2019 he would impose a 5% tariff on all products coming from Mexico if they do not comply. That amount would increase every month by an additional 5% until October, eventually reaching 25%.

Stopping Trump is of the highest priority

This announcement sent Washington and the media into a tizzy. President Trump was immediately attacked by both sides of Congress. Both sides were quick to point out that this could seriously damage our thriving economy, which is true. One might think that if the President was willing to risk damaging his best argument for re-election he must be serious about this issue.

Mexico’s Paying Attention Now

Mexico immediately responded to the tariff threat by announcing they would be sending their representatives to the U.S to negotiate a deal to avoid it. The MSM was saying that the tariffs would only affect our country and not Mexico, but Mexico’s sudden response would tend to dispute that theory.

According to a spokeswoman from the Mexican Government, the United States and Mexico have agreed to establish “migrant protection protocols.” Meaning migrants will be immediately returned to Mexico to await their asylum claims. Other terms are as follows:

1) Mexico will deploy an additional 6,000 members of it’s National Guard to its southern border.

2) Mexico also agrees to house them, provide jobs and education for the migrants while they wait out their claims.

3) Both sides agree to increase communications to further our joint cause, including going after organizations responsible for facilitating transportation between these countries and illegal enterprises profiting from the situation.

4) U.S agrees to expedite asylum claims in a timely fashion and to begin to remove migrants “expeditiously”

5) Both countries agree to review this deal in ninety days to assess the effectiveness of the deal and make changes if appropriate to do so.

A Big Win No One Wants to Talk About

Getting Mexico to agree to all these concessions would seem to most to be a big win for this country and for the White House. If you were to watch coverage of this story on MSM, however, you would think that darkness had befallen this great nation. They predicted Trump’s supporters would hold that against him in 2020. Most Trump supporters, however, blame the Democrats and the courts, not Donald Trump.

The Left was also upset that he got Mexico to increase the amount of farm products they buy from us(although admitting it’s good for the country). They don’t think mixing trade and immigration is a good idea. ABC agreed, and as close as they could come to giving Trump credit was to say “ Well I guess you could spin this as a win if you were the White House.”

CNN’s Ana Cabrera was more concerned about the negative effects that the tariffs would of caused rather than the positive results it achieved. The closest she could come to admitting this was a win was to ask her guest, “Is this a win for the White House?” To which he replied “No, Trump is a bully for pushing around one of our alleys, forcing them to use military force to solve a humanitarian crisis”.

CBSN reported the story, though refusing to give Trump a win. They were focusing on the one thing Trump didn’t get; for Migrants to apply for asylum in Mexico. CBSN ignored the things we did get. They also reminded their viewers that in no way does this get the wall built or get Mexico to pay for it.

Democrats Chime In

Top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer weren’t too excited either. Nancy put out her statement that said “President Trump has undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbor to the south. Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy.” Schumer mocked Trump by saying “Now that Trump has solved the immigration crisis maybe now we’ll stop hearing about it.”

It seems that the Democrats would much rather see our country fail than to see Donald Trump be successful. Stopping Trump is of the highest priority, much higher than actually doing anything to help solve the many problems this country faces. Anything that can be perceived as a win for Trump that he can use in his re-election bid must be immediately squashed. It breaks this writer’s heart to see one party clearly hate this President more than they love this country.