Mexico: Trump's tariffs could worsen Central American immigration problem

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By DOUG PALMER 06/03/2019 10:01 AM EDT

President Donald Trump’s plan to slap tariffs on Mexican goods will hurt both countries and weaken Mexico’s ability to help stop the flow of Central American immigrants seeking entry into the United States, top Mexican officials said Monday.

“Slapping tariffs, along with a decision to cancel aid programs to the northern Central American countries, could have a counterproductive effect and would not reduce migrations flows,” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters during an early morning press conference at the Mexican Embassy.

Trump plans to impose a 5 percent duty on all Mexican goods beginning next week. He also said he would gradually ratchet the duty up to 25 percent by Oct. 1 unless Mexico does more to stop the flow of Central American immigrants reaching the southern U.S. border.

Ebard highlighted the actions Mexico is already taking to deal with the stream of migrants crossing into his country from Guatemala.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/03/mexico-trump-tariffs-immigration-1496518

[justhanginon]

1. Virtually everything this orange piece of human detritus does

makes any given problem worse including the ones he creates himself. I hope we can as a country survive this debacle of an administration.