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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Mexico braced for exodus to US as ‘Trump effect' hurts the peso |
| 2017-01-22 |
| [Guardian] Donald Trump is actually giving Mexican workers more reason to head to the US, not less. In Mexico it is known as "el efecto Trump": a barrage of taunts and tweets that rattle the economy and hammer the peso. For the new president, it is part of a strategy to pressure companies to move jobs back to the United States. Mexico’s job will be to suck it up, accept the millions of people Trump has promised to deport, and pay for the proposed border wall. Reality may soon disrupt this vision because Donald Trump, in one of the first great ironies of his presidency, has given impoverished Mexicans more reason to migrate to the US. The peso’s slump against the dollar has dramatically driven up their cost of living, fuelling angry protests and steeling the resolve of some to sneak across the border. Border Patrol At Trump Inauguration Parade; Trump's Reaction |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Unfortunately, one of the troops shot a teenager who was out hunting, which ended the exercise. Bit more to it than that. But the story is already set. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-01-22 20:40 |
| #10 'Mass Defections'? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-22 17:27 |
| #9 re #6: Raj, I seem to recall that there was a time where we stationed armed military on the border. Unfortunately, one of the troops shot a teenager who was out hunting, which ended the exercise. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-01-22 14:55 |
| #8 No, the second word starts with D. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-22 14:08 |
| #7 Two words. The first is "mass". Or maybe the second word is "mass"... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-01-22 14:08 |
| #6 Just issue 'shoot to kill' orders in the meantime; that'll end this shit real quick. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-01-22 13:07 |
| #5 Hammer the employees and the illegal situation will resolve itself without lots of teary footage of gov officials dragging families apart. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-01-22 11:50 |
| #4 Two words. The first is "mass". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-22 10:23 |
| #3 me likey besoeker, me likey |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-01-22 07:39 |
| #2 Volunteer aircraft and aerial spotters. Armed, deputized, horse mounted volunteers, or rotating military reservists until construction is complete. "Improvise, adapt, overcome." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-22 07:12 |
| #1 better get that border wall up super quick |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-01-22 04:55 |