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Two Examples of Mexican Government Officials Blackmailing U.S. by Threatening Flood of South American Immigrants…
2018-04-03
[ConservativeTreehouse] ♦ In August of 2017 President Trump and Commerce Secretary Ross were discussing their trade efforts within NAFTA and renegotiation with Mexico/Canada on a trilateral basis. However, the U.S. administration said if it doesn’t work, they’d scrap the 3-way NAFTA deal and go one-on-one with individual bilateral agreements. In response, Mexican Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo threatened to flood the U.S. with South American illegal aliens, criminals and gang members as leverage:

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ‐ Mexico could pull back on cooperation in migration and security matters if the United States walks away from talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mexican economy minister said in a newspaper report published on Thursday.

"If they do not treat [us] well commercially, they should not expect us to treat them well by containing the migration that comes from other regions of the world and crosses Mexico," Guajardo said. "Or they should not expect to be treated well in collaboration with security issues in the region."

However, Mexican Minister Ildefonso Guarjardo’s threat was mild compared to a threat in January 2017, when another Mexican official promised to flood the U.S. with South American drugs and gang violence:


♦ In a stunning segment on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN broadcast January 29th, 2017, Mexico’s former foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, states the Mexican government was willing to counter U.S. President Donald Trump policy by unleashing drug cartels upon the U.S. border.

Watch, and more importantly LISTEN, to his words at 02:10 below (Prompted):



This was the most politically explosive admission by the Mexican government in the past decade. Even Fareed Zakaria realized what was being threatened and quickly attempted to redirect the conversation.

Mr. Castaneda was openly admitting a willingness to promote drug trafficking. Additionally, Jorge Castaneda is so proud of the threat, he posted a video of the discussion on his own YouTube page.
More at the link.
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#16  Trump should announce that if the Mexican government doesn't stop the bullshit that he'll put a 90% tax on remittances to Mexico. 1/3 of the Mexican economy would dry up overnight.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-04-03 22:54  

#15  Government officials are not a class of people. They are not a race. They are the command and control structure of what is supposed to be a nation. When they threaten another country, attempt to blackmail another country, they have declared themselves to be hostile targets. Killing enemies working directly to harm and destroy your country is nothing more than an act of national survival. My 'plan' for fixing the Mexican problem is simple. Remove their government, allow their states to become US territories and in 15 to 20 years, they can apply for statehood in the United States of America. It'll take a while for them to reach a point beyond their endless cycle of self-destruction and corruption. In the end, they become citizens and the border is no longer an issue.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-04-03 17:43  

#14  First perhaps CBP and ICE could be unshackled.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-04-03 10:41  

#13  Calling for the extermination of whole classes of people is what Lenin and Trotsky did in 1918. It's not trolling to call people out when they say stupid shit. It's what the Left points to when they say we're weirdos who should be banned.

I don't think you understand the Golden Rule Grunter.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-03 10:05  

#12  Gronter Smiter of the French9585 - Sort of like the Bitch calling all of Trump's voters despicable and there-by making it okay for Intafa and the Left Loons to do anything to them?
Posted by: 3dc   2018-04-03 09:55  

#11  Calling for the extermination of whole classes of people is what Lenin and Trotsky did in 1918. It's not trolling to call people out when they say stupid shit. It's what the Left points to when they say we're weirdos who should be banned.
Posted by: Gronter Smiter of the French9585   2018-04-03 09:16  

#10  If only we had a CIA more inclined towards protecting the U.S. than bringing down its President...

The Klingons are interested in only two things; market expansion and self preservation. Everything else is fake news.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-03 08:34  

#9  If only we had a CIA more inclined towards protecting the U.S. than bringing down its President...
Posted by: Flinenter Glereling9074   2018-04-03 08:22  

#8  Close all cross border traffic. See who needs who the most. That portion of NAFTA becomes dead.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-03 08:22  

#7  Countries are responsible for what comes from or through their territory into another country. Early in US history an Irish group set up on the Canadian border and attacked British interests -- and the US has no grounds to object when the British retaliated. If the Mexican government is going to take the stand that they cannot control what comes from their territory, they are admitting they are no longer a government.

I'm which case: all treaties with them are null and void, including those that facilitate bank transfers. All of their consulates and embassies are closed and every Mexican national is now a stateless person (yes, including their ambassador).

As a step short of this, we could just arrange for their corrupt politicians to meet their justice at an earlier date. Eventually Mexico would have a government that can govern and governs sanely.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-04-03 07:06  

#6  That's not genocide - look it up.

That's regime change - with teeth.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-04-03 04:26  

#5  Troll at aile 4.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-03 03:40  

#4  Yeah, you know, calling for genocide like that is exactly what the Left points to when they say we are crazy nutbags. Good job, nutbag.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-04-03 03:31  

#3  Trump should tell the Mexican government that if this convoy crosses our border, a state of war will exist between the US and Mexico and step 1 of our counter attack will be the extermination of every single Mexican government official above the local level
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-04-03 01:27  

#2  
Jorge Castaneda
Posted by: 3dc   2018-04-03 00:12  

#1  
Ildefonso Guajardo
Posted by: 3dc   2018-04-03 00:10  

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