BUSINESS/CANADA/COMMERCE/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid more than 200 points Thursday [5-31-18] as investors broadly recoiled from the stock market after the Trump administration made good on its plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow industrials, 28 traded lower, while all major […]
Category: Mexico
5/30/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-29-18] accused Mexico of doing ‘nothing’ to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and repeated his election campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for his planned border wall. Very quickly Mexico replied: no we won’t. Trump was addressing supporters in a campaign-style rally in […]
5/30/2018
ELECTION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2006, Andrés Manuel López Obrador lost his first presidential race by a hair. He refused to concede, and in a surreal ceremony donned a presidential sash and declared himself Mexico’s legitimate president. Earlier, in a fiery speech in the capital’s historic square, he cursed Mexico’s governing institutions…Now the 64-year-old leftist nationalist […]
5/28/2018
CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump considers new tariffs on imported vehicles and pursues a deal with China to avoid a trade war, economists and business leaders see a pattern emerging in the White House’s efforts to renegotiate many trade relationships: Open aggressively, then settle for incremental concessions. The Trump administration has accused […]
5/25/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy members of the National Guard to the southern U.S. border with Mexico is ‘a colossal waste of resources,’ according to the leader of a union representing members of the U.S. Border Patrol. National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, who represents roughly 15,000 agents, panned the […]
5/17/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade chief said Thursday [5-17-18] the U.S. is ‘nowhere near’ a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement, effectively brushing aside an offer from House Speaker Paul Ryan for more time to conclude a deal that could be considered in Congress this year…All three Nafta countries—Mexico, Canada […]
5/15/2018
CANADA/CONGRESS/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s plans to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement this year looked unattainable Tuesday [5-15-18] after negotiators appeared too far apart to strike a deal before a deadline this week. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan had set this Thursday [5-17-18] as an informal deadline if the administration were to […]
5/15/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is facing stark choices as it seeks to fulfill promises to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico ahead of a fast-approaching deadline. The administration’s goal is to have a deal cleared by the U.S. Congress by year-end. Given procedural hurdles, both House Speaker Paul […]
5/10/2018
BUSINESS/CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S., Canada and Mexico are focusing on rewriting the auto rules at the center of the North American Free Trade Agreement as negotiators face hard deadlines in an election year, raising the possibility of less drastic changes to other controversial parts of Nafta, according to people following the talks. A Republican […]
5/4/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Southern Border is under siege. Congress must act now to change our weak and ineffective immigration laws. Must build a Wall. Mexico, which has a massive crime problem, is doing little to help!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:22 am […]
4/30/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Monday [4-30-18] that it would delay a decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico for another 30 days, giving key allies a reprieve as the White House tries to extract concessions from trading partners who have resisted those demands. The […]
4/29/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A long, grueling journey gave way to what could be a long, uncertain asylum process Sunday [4-29-18] as a caravan of immigrants finally reached the border between the United States and Mexico, setting up a dramatic moment and a test of President Trump’s anti-immigrant politics. More than 150 migrants, part of a […]
4/24/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [4-24-18] that a new North American Free Trade Agreement could be agreed quickly, as Canada hailed progress on forging new rules for the auto industry, the pivotal issue in talks to revamp the 24-year-old accord. Ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico responsible for […]
4/23/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump threatened to bar asylum-seeking Central American migrants from entering the U.S. illegally on Monday [4-23-18] while dangling the possibility of making stricter border enforcement a demand in NAFTA negotiations talks with Mexico. The president, who earlier this month decried reports of an incoming ‘caravan’ of migrants marching across Mexico […]
4/23/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement. Our Country cannot accept what is happening! Also, we must get Wall funding fast.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 23, 2018 8:51 am […]
4/23/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump threatened to make Mexican immigration control a condition of a new NAFTA agreement on Monday [4-23-18], saying the southern U.S. neighbor must stop illegal immigrants from getting into the United States…The U.S. president made similar comments linking NAFTA, an acronym for the North American Free Trade Agreement, and immigration […]
4/18/2018
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is accusing California’s governor of ‘trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border.’ Democrat Jerry Brown has said he’s nearing agreement on the state joining Trump’s large-scale deployment along the Mexican border. Brown’s office said Tuesday that nothing’s changed since the governor pledged 400 troops last […]
4/18/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The remnants of a migrant caravan of Central Americans that drew the ire of President Donald Trump were continuing their journey north through Mexico toward the U.S. border on Wednesday [4-18-18]. Organizer Irineo Mujica, speaking from the western Mexico city of Guadalajara, said that about 500 migrants had been riding trains north […]
4/17/2018
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California officials rejected President Donald Trump’s request for National Guard troops to help secure the U.S. border with Mexico, federal officials said Monday [4-16-18]. Robert G. Salesses, a Defense Department official working on the deployment plan, said California officials turned down a Border Patrol request for about 237 troops to help with […]
4/11/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is pushing to reach a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement by the beginning of May. But the timeline could be complicated by its refusal to budge from contentious proposals aimed at bringing manufacturing back to the United States. The administration has not significantly softened its position […]
4/6/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After days of President Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric against immigration via Mexico, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto delivered a stern response to his US counterpart, telling him that ‘nothing and no one stands above the dignity of Mexico.’ The five-minute-long speech was delivered in Spanish and posted in a video on the […]
4/5/2018
CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After months of fraught negotiations and stalled talks, the Trump administration is aiming to announce a preliminary deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement this month, moving to resolve one trading conflict as a separate clash with China looms. A final agreement is far from guaranteed, but the White House is […]
4/5/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Caravan is largely broken up thanks to the strong immigration laws of Mexico and their willingness to use them so as not to cause a giant scene at our Border. Because of the Trump Administrations actions, Border crossings are at a still UNACCEPTABLE 46 year low. Stop drugs!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Wednesday [4-4-18] it would deploy National Guard troops to the border with Mexico and would consider building a wall along at least one military base set on the border. Administration officials also said they were hoping for a high-profile congressional debate this spring and summer over U.S. protections […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Central American migrants stranded on a journey through Mexico because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Mexican government say they will struggle on toward the United States, even as their ‘caravan’ said it would disband in Mexico City. Fearful of the risks to children among the bedraggled and tired knot […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump in recent days has decried ‘weak’ US border laws that he says leave the US vulnerable to unfettered immigration — but some of his policies could have the effect of worsening a Central American migrant crisis. Even as the Department of Homeland Security says the southern border ‘is more […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/CANADA/DEMS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong. Congress must change these Obama era, and other, laws NOW! The Democrats stand in our way – they want people to pour into our country unchecked….CRIME! We will be taking strong action today.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/4/2018
MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump, unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday [4-4-18], in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally. The Trump administration was working with the […]
4/3/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spent a second day Tuesday [4-3-18] attacking CNN and other mainstream media outlets while defending Sinclair Broadcast Group, the local-news giant whose anchors were required to deliver an on-air monologue denouncing ‘the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.’ Trump spread around his anger on […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico has firmly rejected US President Donald Trump’s accusations of lax efforts to stop illegal migration over the Mexican-US border, saying in a statement Monday [4-2-18] that it does not promote such activity under any circumstances. Mexico’s foreign ministry issued the statement after Trump spent Sunday [4-1-18] and Monday tweeting against Mexico’s […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our ‘Weak Laws’ Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/2/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declared as ‘dead’ on Monday [4-2-18] a program that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children and pressed Congress to ‘immediately’ pass legislation to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.Trump, who has taken a hard line toward immigration, said in September he would terminate the Deferred […]
4/2/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Sunday [4-1-18] morning, President Donald Trump referenced an impending series of immigrant ‘caravans’ moving through Mexico to spark his call for Congress to pass strict border laws. ‘Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. […]
4/1/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!” –Donald Trump, […]
3/27/2018
BUDGET/MEXICO/MILITARY/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is floating the idea of using the military’s budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico. Trump raised the idea with House Speaker Paul Ryan at a meeting last week, according to a person familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity. And he’s […]
3/22/2018
DEMS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has called for a wall along the border with Mexico to stop undocumented immigrants and drugs from entering the United States. But Border Patrol agents on the front lines say they need more technology and additional personnel to curb the illegal traffic, according to a report released on Thursday [3-22-18] […]
3/10/2018
CANADA/CHILE/COLOMBIA/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NAFTA/PERU/TPP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will make the first visit of his presidency to Latin America next month, the White House said on Saturday [3-9-18], traveling to Peru for a summit meeting of Western Hemisphere nations where he will convene with a group of leaders who have criticized his statements and policies on immigration. The […]
3/8/2018
AUSTRALIA/CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/GARY D. COHN: “President Trump defied opposition from his own party and protests from overseas on Thursday [3-8-18] as he signed an order imposing stiff and sweeping new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. But he sought to soften the impact on America’s closest allies with a more flexible plan […]
3/8/2018
CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [3-8-18] said he would maintain flexibility to adjust proposed metals tariffs on a country-by-country basis, hours before he is expected to meet with metal industry executives and workers to discuss the new trade actions… The president said tariffs might not be necessary on Canada and […]
3/8/2018
AMBASSADOR/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “The US ambassador to Mexico was not invited to a meeting between senior White House adviser Jared Kushner and Mexican officials, including President Enrique Peña Nieto, a US official told CNN. Roberta Jacobson, a career diplomat who has more than 30 years of experience in the region, announced her retirement earlier […]
3/4/2018
BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Along a dusty stretch of border, flanked by an outlet mall and farmland, a giant crane hoisted a 30-foot-high section of steel barrier and dropped it into a shallow trench last Wednesday [2-28-18]. The structure was one of the first new pieces of a border wall put in place since the start […]
3/1/2018
AMBASSADOR/MEXICO/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States ambassador to Mexico plans to resign from her post in May, according to a memo circulated on Thursday [3-1-18] to embassy staff, the latest in a string of senior diplomatic departures from the region — and more broadly from the State Department. The ambassador, Roberta S. Jacobson, 57, served […]
2/25/2018
BORDER/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Plans for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto have been shelved for the second time in a year over disagreements about the funding of a border wall, Trump administration officials said. The border wall has been a key issue for Mr. Trump since he began campaigning […]
1/29/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement survived what was seen as the crucial sixth round, with the U.S., Canada and Mexico tackling difficult issues even as tensions flared between the U.S. and Canada over auto-industry rules… Still, Mr. Lighthizer and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts nodded to progress […]
1/28/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico and Canada have rejected a proposal by the Trump administration to remake a corporate arbitration system that is a key part of the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to people involved in talks to update the pact. The two countries’ resistance to the U.S. plan to change the system, […]
1/22/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canadian and Mexican trade officials in Montreal on Sunday [1-21-18] began laying out proposals aimed at convincing their U.S. counterparts not to put an end to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Delegations from Canada and Mexico will present an array of responses to some of the Trump administration’s most hard-line […]
1/18/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-18-18] insisted that ‘the Wall is the Wall’ and his conception of it had never changed, the morning after Hispanic lawmakers said his chief of staff told them that the president’s promise to build a wall along the Mexican border was ‘not fully informed.’ ‘The […]
1/18/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We need the Wall for the safety and security of our country. We need the Wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs from Mexico, now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world. If there is no Wall, there is no Deal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 18, 2018 […]
1/18/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water… The Wall […]
1/11/2018
JOBS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Chrysler is moving a massive plant from Mexico to Michigan, reversing a years long opposite trend. Thank you Chrysler, a very wise decision. The voters in Michigan are very happy they voted for Trump/Pence. Plenty of more to follow!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 09:53pm […]
1/5/2018
BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Trump administration is asking Congress for nearly $18 billion to construct more than 700 miles of new and replacement barriers along the southwest border, offering its most detailed description yet of the president’s vision for a border wall with Mexico. The request, if granted, would be a major expansion from the […]
12/22/2017
MEXICO/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico’s finance ministry will evaluate whether to make fiscal changes in response to the U.S. tax reform, according to a document seen by Reuters on Friday [12-22-17]. In the document, the ministry said Mexico would not make changes that left it with a higher public sector deficit. ‘Nevertheless, there will be an […]
11/15/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Cards Against Humanity, an irreverent card game company known for its attention-seeking pranks, says it bought land on the U.S.-Mexico border to block President Trump from building his wall. The Chicago company said on its website that this was part of a holiday promotion, for which customers could contribute to the wall-blocking […]
11/9/2017
MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “American trade negotiators are taking aggressive measures to close what they describe as a Mexican ‘back door’ through which steel and other auto-manufacturing components produced outside North America are sold tariff-free in the U.S. The U.S. trade representative has proposed a significant expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement so-called […]
10/26/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Seven months after the federal government asked for bids to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, the country will get its first glimpse of President Donald Trump’s vision, rising on a dusty patch of desert here. Eight completed border-wall models will be unveiled Thursday [10-26-17] in a pageant of […]
10/11/2017
CANADA/COMMERCE/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, speaking alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, opened the door to separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement and repeated his warnings that the U.S. could withdraw from the pact… Asked if he would consider separate deals with Canada and […]
9/27/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “On a dusty patch of land surrounded by a chain-link fence near the border here, workers this week began shoveling ground for a large-scale prototype for a border wall with Mexico. The eight different models of President Trump’s promised wall will range from 18 to 30 feet tall. Four will be made […]
9/27/2017
BORDER/BUDGET/HOUSE OF REPS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Republicans on Wednesday [9-27-17] unveiled a plan to provide $10 billion for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico, a bill unlikely to clear the Senate but which could fuel a shutdown fight in December. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas) said his panel will vote on the […]
9/19/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 19, 2017 03:05pm […]
9/14/2017
CRISIS/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said that he reached Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto by telephone Thursday [9-14-17] to express his condolences for the earthquake that struck his country a week ago, citing poor cellphone reception for the delay. The White House had previously cited technical issues when a planned phone call […]
9/14/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Spoke to President of Mexico to give condolences on terrible earthquake. Unable to reach for 3 days b/c of his cell phone reception at site.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 14, 2017 02:18pm […]
9/13/2017
CRISIS/DEFENSE/JAMES MATTIS/MEXICO: “Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will resume his role as the reassurer for American allies this week when he heads to Mexico, where he will try to mend relations after President Trump failed to quickly offer condolences for the earthquake on Friday [9-15-17] that killed at least 96 people and severely damaged thousands of […]
9/12/2017
CRISIS/MEXICO/TEXAS: “Mexico will no longer send the emergency aid offered to Texas after Hurricane Harvey, to focus on those affected by a deadly earthquake and Hurricane Katia that struck the eastern state of Veracruz last week, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said Monday [9-11-17]. In a statement, the ministry said the decision was taken in light […]
9/1/2017
MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The second round of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement begins here Friday [9-1-17] under a dark cloud after both the U.S. and Mexico raised the stakes dramatically in recent days. U.S. President Donald Trump has jolted the tone of the meetings with renewed calls to pull out […]
8/31/2017
BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday [8-31-17] which vendors have been selected to build some protoypes for President Donald Trump’s promised US-Mexico border wall, a step forward for the project after months of delays. The announcement came after the Government Accountability Office on Friday dismissed a protest filed on the contract […]
8/30/2017
MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “Mexico’s leftist presidential hopeful, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement should be suspended until the country’s election next year, and he warned he would renegotiate any deal that harms Mexico’s interests if he wins the vote… His remarks came as government officials from Mexico, the […]
8/29/2017
LABOR/MEXICO/NAFTA: “Emma Palacios started working in factories in this city on the Texas border in 1994, the year the North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect. Ever since, she says, it has been easy to find work at the scores of U.S.-owned factories that opened here. What’s proved harder to find is decent pay. […]
8/28/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Spurred by President Donald Trump’s emphatic reiteration that it will eventually pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Mexican government said in a statement Sunday that it will not fund such a project ‘under any circumstances.’ ‘As the Mexican government has always stated, our country will not pay, under any […]
8/27/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 27, 2017 08:44am […]
8/8/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Demand in America for Mexican farmhands, landscapers and other temporary workers is surging as the Trump administration moves to curb immigration and renegotiate its trade relationship with Mexico. That demand is prompting both countries to search for ways to ease labor shortages in key parts of the U.S. economy. In the first nine […]
8/3/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump pressured the Mexican president to stop voicing opposition in public to his plan to have Mexico pay for a border wall, according to transcripts of phone calls published on Thursday [8-3-17] that gave an insight into Trump’s attempts to influence foreign leaders in his first days in office. […]
8/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Only hours after President Trump said Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto had called him to praise his migration policy, the Mexican government denied the two men had spoken recently by phone. Trump’s comment came Monday [7-31-17] as he was presenting his new chief of staff, John Kelly, who was moving to the […]
8/2/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In President Donald Trump’s telling, officials from Mexico City to Boy Scouts headquarters are lighting up his phone line with praise. In the leaders’ telling, though, the calls never happened. It’s an unusual pattern of pushback against the President of the United States, a frequent and expansive telephoner who sometimes hands out […]
6/29/2017
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New Sugar deal negotiated with Mexico is a very good one for both Mexico and the U.S. Had no deal for many years which hurt U.S. badly.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 29, 2017 07:27am […]
6/26/2017
MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Of all the industries thrown into question by President Trump’s promise to upend free trade with Mexico, natural gas is easily one of the most important. More than a quarter of Mexico’s electricity is powered by American natural gas, leaving it especially vulnerable to any upheavals from a trade battle with […]
6/23/2017
BORDER/ENERGY ALT/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is crediting himself with the idea of building a Mexico border wall of solar panels. But that looks to be a borrowed brainwave; others pitched a solar wall back when he was a skeptic of tapping power from the sun… TRUMP: ‘We’re thinking about building the wall as […]
6/22/2017
CRIME/DRUGS/MEXICO/WALL: “Mexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only Syria. Drug trade is largely the cause. We will BUILD THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2017 05:15pm […]
6/22/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump revealed Wednesday [6-21-17] that he has proposed a ‘solar wall’ along the southern border, suggesting for the first time that the sun, and not Mexico, might pay for his signature campaign pledge. Speaking at a rally in downtown Cedar Rapids, Trump declared that covering his planned border wall with […]
6/20/2017
CHINA/ECONOMY/JOBS/MEXICO: “Ford Motor said on Tuesday [6-20-17] that it would build its next-generation small car for American consumers in China rather than Mexico, where the automaker canceled plans for a new factory this year. The shift of production of the Ford Focus to China was among a number of manufacturing moves announced by the company, […]
6/16/2017
MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “Friction between the U.S. and Mexico over trade is starting to cut into sales for U.S. farmers and agricultural companies, adding uncertainty for an industry struggling with low commodity prices and excess supply. Over the first four months of 2017, Mexican imports of U.S. soybean meal, used to feed poultry and livestock, dropped […]
6/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “Mexico agreed to demands from the United States to cut exports of refined sugar, striking a deal on Tuesday [6-6-17] in a contentious trade negotiation that was closely watched as a prologue to talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. The dispute stemmed from complaints by American sugar refiners that […]
6/6/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump floated putting solar panels on his planned Mexican border wall in a meeting with legislative leaders Tuesday [6-6-17] afternoon, according to White House and Capitol Hill officials. It was unclear why Trump brought up the topic, but he presented the panels as a way to fund the wall, which […]
4/27/2017
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told the leaders of Canada and Mexico Wednesday he was not immediately planning to end the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact which he railed against as a candidate and as recently as last week declared was harmful to US workers. In a description of Trump’s phone calls […]
4/27/2017
CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/NAFTA: “I received calls from the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada asking to renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate. I agreed… subject to the fact that if we do not reach a fair deal for all, we will then terminate NAFTA. Relationships are good-deal very possible!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, […]
4/26/2017
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. just lost a trade battle with Mexico. It’s the first loss of the Trump era. Mexico and the U.S. have fought for years over tuna. The U.S. insists that any Mexican tuna sold in the U.S. must be ‘dolphin safe,’ meaning dolphins weren’t killed by tuna fisherman, which was […]
4/25/2017
BORDER/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/MEXICO/WALL: “Don’t let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 25, 2017 07:36am […]
4/24/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “….the wall is not built, which it will be, the drug situation will NEVER be fixed the way it should be! #BuildTheWall” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 24, 2017 10:31am […]
4/24/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “The Wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth (and many others)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 24, 2017 07:28am […]
4/23/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 23, 2017 10:44am […]
04/07/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/WALL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…For years, the federal government has pondered a way to build a stronger barrier across it to halt illegal immigration from Mexico. In February, federal authorities made the long-looming threat concrete. A letter from the U.S. attorney in southern Texas informed the Benavides family that the government intends to seize a 60-foot-wide […]
04/05/2017
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO: “Parents and children caught crossing the Mexican border into the United States illegally generally can remain together, the Homeland Security Department said Wednesday, in a partial reversal of previous comments. Secretary John Kelly told a Senate panel that families would not be separated unless the ‘situation at the time requires it.’ He gave as […]
3/9/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday [3-9-17] he doesn’t expect Mexico to pay for the wall that President Trump has been promising along America’s southern border. The GOP was asked if he thinks Mexico will pay for the wall during an interview with Politico — to which he flatly responded, ‘Uh, no.’ The […]
3/3/2017
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/WALL: “Perched more than 20 feet in the air atop the border fence between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, a Mexican lawmaker delivers a message to President Donald Trump. ‘It’s completely unnecessary — and it’s absurd — to build a wall that costs $15 billion,’ Braulio Guerra says in Spanish as a camera rolls. ‘Look, […]
2/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Mexico does not need financial aid from the United States, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said on Friday, after President Donald Trump ordered a report on U.S. assistance to its southern neighbor over the last five years. Mexican officials gave a cool reception to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and […]
2/23/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the White House, President Trump was telling American chief executives that the days of being treated unfairly by Mexico — on trade, on immigration, on crime — were over. ‘You see what’s happening at the border: All of a sudden for the first time, we’re getting gang members out,’ Mr. […]
2/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO: “Almost everybody living in the U.S. illegally is now subject to deportation, and more undocumented arrivals at the southern border will be jailed or sent back to Mexico to await a hearing rather than released into the U.S., under memos issued Tuesday [2-21-17] by the Department of Homeland Security… Under former President Barack Obama’s […]
2/12/2017
MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thousands of demonstrators waving Mexican flags and hoisting signs denouncing President Trump marched through central Mexico City on Sunday, the largest mobilization so far here against what many label an anti-Mexican administration in the White House. ‘We are not against the American people. This is about Trump, who is spreading hate and […]
2/10/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/PROTESTS: “Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down. The proposal calls for ad campaigns advising migrants in the U.S. to take their cases […]
1/26/2017
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Trump will call for a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports in the hopes of raising billions of dollars to help construct a controversial wall along the southern border of the United States — a move likely to ratchet up the tension between the two nations.” –Halimah Abdullah and Suzanne […]
1/25/2017
BORDER/CONGRESS/CRIME/DRUGS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NATIONAL SECURITY/TERRORISM/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/WALL: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) (INA), the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–367) (Secure Fence Act), and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant […]