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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Elvia Diaz: If the candidate better known as AMLO wins Mexico's July 1 presidential election, we are in big trouble. Americans could soon be hit by the political tsunami called Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And if that happens, we can thank President Donald Trump for it. Mexicans have twice rejected the 64-year-old leftist Obrador – better known as AMLO – for president, but this time is different. Trump's incessant Mexico bashing and “build the wall” agenda have propelled Obrador to a double-digit lead in the July 1 election. If he wins, Mexico will elect its first leftist president since the 1930s. Why is that bad for the U.S.? 1. Like Trump, Obrador is an isolationist The soft-spoken Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor with a decades-long career in politics, has outsmarted candidates from the powerful political elite, seizing on Trump’s antagonistic rhetoric to woo the masses. So: Trump wants to build a wall with Mexico? Obrador says he would cooperate with the United States but its "racist attitude will not be tolerated." Trump wants to end the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada? To heck with the USA. Obrador says Mexicans can be self-sufficient. Trump has sent the National Guard to the border and keeps threatening mass deportations? Don’t worry, Obrador says. Mexicans would have no need to cross the border, legally or otherwise. Wait. If Trump wants Mexicans to stay in Mexico, and Obrador is the one to accomplish it, what’s wrong with that? A lot, actually. 2. His agenda could hurt U.S. interests From exports to jobs to daily tourist spending, the economic impact really adds up. azcentral.com Wochit Obrador’s populist agenda worries economic experts at home and abroad. They paint him as a Hugo Chávez-style authoritarian “tropical messiah” who could turn Mexico into another Venezuela. He wants to: Postpone NAFTA negotiations until after the election, adding uncertainty to economic markets already on edge over Trump’s insistence to end the trade deal. At stake are 14 million NAFTA-supported American jobs. Make Mexico self-sufficient on staples like corn, beans and beef, which would hurt American farmers and cattle ranchers. In 2017, U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico reached $18.6 billion, including other products such as soybeans, dairy, pork and beef, according to the Department of Agriculture. Propose a referendum on energy reform and has hinted at possibly canceling oil contracts with foreign companies. Financial markets tumbled, for instance, after he threatened to halt a landmark energy reform and end a $13.3 billion airport project, noted Marco Lopez, a Phoenix-based expert on the Mexican political and business sector. Cut wages for high-ranking officials while increasing those of low-income workers. Offer amnesty for criminals whose drug war has left more than 100,000 dead since 2006. Eliminate college admission exams and provide scholarships to all low-income students, as well as double senior citizens and retiree pensions. STORY FROM MERRILL LYNCH Questions for your Advisor See more → 3. It also could boost illegal immigration Obrador’s “populism” suggests Mexicans are desperate for somebody to stand up to Trump’s bullying and fight government’s deep-rooted corruption that has plunged the country into economic and political turmoil. But he’s making unrealistic promises, and his Made in Mexico policies could further threaten economic trade between the two nations. You think that’s good? Think again. The already volatile financial market would go into a tailspin, almost certainly sending the Mexican currency, the peso, on a downward spiral. That means less money to pay for his policies, hurting the very people he wants to get out of poverty. A President Obrador would stand up to Trump, yes. But in doing so he could isolate Mexico from much needed economic trade with the United States and the world. American industries – from oil to automobile manufacturing to farmers to cattle ranchers – should be worried about a President Obrador. DIAZ: 5 ways Mexico could retaliate against Trump Obrador isn’t bluffing. He truly believes he can make Mexico self-sufficient on corn, beans, beef and a range of other current imports. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Mexico should become self-sufficient. But it should not be done so at the expense of the poor, who stand to lose the most if Obrador’s socialist agenda fails. And if a President Obrador fails, as experts predict, that could mean only one thing: A wave of Mexicans heading north to cross to the United States – with or without Trump’s border wall. Poster Comment: US Latino population is 57.5 million. In 1950 it might have been 3.2 million. That is 17.9 times as many now as then. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Blame ameriKa first -- it works most every time. ameriKan agriculture has gutted Mexican, so maybe turnabout is fair play. He does sound a bit loopy though -- doesn't mention corruption or gangocracy? "Leftist" usually means poison, so it will prolly just be more ruin and trouble for Mexico. Since the Mexinvasion has depleted many Mexican towns of able-bodied males you'd thnk he'd have some plan for stanching the flow and attracting wetbacks home, but he's prolly a Mason and jew tool with no intention of interfering with the blackening of ameriKa. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NAFTA was bad for Mexico and the US. Some US manufacturers sent plants to Mexico but China and other low wage countries took many of those plants. They have too many people.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
They caught one Mexican for the third time in the country illegally. The ask why he keep coming. He said, "There are no jobs and no money in Mexico." ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Never forget, all, the great "CONSERVATIVE" messiah Rush Limblob pushed for NAFTA full time till it was done. The unstated excuse was that a fake Republican president wanted it, but Poppy Bush "had subverted the LAC[18] advisory process[19] and worked to "fast track" the signing prior to the end of his term, ran out of time and had to pass the required ratification and signing of the implementation law to incoming president Bill Clinton[20]" (Wikid). Didn't the cetacean marrano also back GATT etc?
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
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