{"id":218160,"date":"2019-06-09T22:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T02:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218160"},"modified":"2019-06-09T22:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T02:54:49","slug":"trump-still-hangs-tariff-threat-over-mexico-despite-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/09\/trump-still-hangs-tariff-threat-over-mexico-despite-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump still hangs tariff threat over Mexico despite deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Another false report in the Failing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a>. We have been trying to get some of these Border Actions for a long time, as have other administrations, but were not able to get them, or get them in full, until our signed agreement with Mexico. Additionally, and for many years,&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1137697504785588225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nSTERLING, Va. &#8212; President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled the prospect of renewing his tariff threat against\u00a0Mexico\u00a0if the U.S. ally doesn&#8217;t co-operate on border issues, while some of his Democratic challengers for the White House said the last-minute deal to avert trade penalties was overblown.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Trump defended the agreement heading off the 5% tax on all Mexican goods that he had threatened to impose Monday, but he warned\u00a0Mexico\u00a0that, \u201cif for some unknown reason\u201d co-operation fails, \u201cwe can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of Tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, he said he didn&#8217;t believe that would be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The tweets came amid questions about just how much of the deal &#8212; announced with great fanfare Friday &#8212; was really new. It included a commitment from\u00a0Mexico, for instance, to deploy its new National Guard to its southern border with Guatemala.\u00a0Mexico, however, had already intended to do that before Trump&#8217;s latest threat and had made that clear to U.S. officials. Mexican officials have described their commitment as an accelerated deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. also hailed\u00a0Mexico&#8217;s agreement to embrace the expansion of a program implemented earlier this year under which some asylum-seekers are returned to\u00a0Mexico\u00a0as they wait out their cases. But U.S. officials had already been working to expand the program, which has led to the return of about 10,000 people to\u00a0Mexico, without\u00a0Mexico&#8217;s public embrace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president has completely overblown what he reports to have achieved. These are agreements that\u00a0Mexico\u00a0had already made, in some cases months ago,\u201d said Democratic presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke, speaking on ABC&#8217;s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cThey might have accelerated the time table, but by and large the president achieved nothing except to jeopardize the most important trading relationship that the United States of America has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another 2020 candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chastised Trump for using tariffs as a threat and operating a \u201ctrade policy based on tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what the world is tired of and what I am tired of is a president who consistently goes to war, verbal war with our allies, whether it is\u00a0Mexico, whether it is Canada,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, speaking on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d insisted \u201call of it is new,\u201d including the agreement to dispatch around 6,000 National Guard troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time we&#8217;ve heard anything like this kind of number of law enforcement being deployed in\u00a0Mexico\u00a0to address migration, not just at the southern border but also on the transportation routes to the northern border and in co-ordinated patrols in key areas along our southwest border,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cpeople can disagree with the tactics\u201d but \u201cMexico\u00a0came to the table with real proposals\u201d that will be effective, if implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Trump echoed the same in his tweets, insisting the deal was being misrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been trying to get some of these Border Actions for a long time, as have other administrations, but were not able to get them, or get them in full, until our signed agreement with\u00a0Mexico,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMexico\u00a0was not being co-operative on the Border in things we had, or didn&#8217;t have, and now I have full confidence, especially after speaking to their President yesterday, that they will be very co-operative and want to get the job properly done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also teased the idea that more was agreed to than was announced Friday, saying that \u201csome things\u201d and \u201cone in particular\u201d had been left out of the release but would be \u201cannounced at the appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He could have been referring to discussion about\u00a0Mexico\u00a0becoming a \u201csafe third country,\u201d which would make it harder for asylum-seekers who pass through the country to claim refuge in the U.S. The idea, which\u00a0Mexico\u00a0has long opposed, was discussed during negotiations. But Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has said\u00a0Mexico\u00a0did not agree to it.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s ambassador in Washington nonetheless said her country is committed to working with the U.S. and that discussions will continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to continue to work with the U.S. very closely on the different challenges that we have together. And one urgent one at this moment is immigration,\u201d said Martha Barcena. She told CBS&#8217; \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that the countries&#8217; \u201cjoint declaration of principles &#8230; gives us the base for the road map that we have to follow in the incoming months on immigration and co-operation on asylum issues and development in Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the U.S. wants to see the number of migrants crossing the border return to levels seen in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another false report in the Failing @nytimes. 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