Trump’s “success” in negotiating with Mexico is all phony — fake; illusory — like everything else in his pathetic life.
• The deal was already worked out several months ago.
• As numerous commentators have pointed out, the provision that asylum seekers would apply from a foreign nation violates existing statutes and court decisions that Trump cannot unilaterally rewrite. In addition to the recently renegotiated NAFTA agreement (now re-christened USMCA), U.S. law — backed up by court decisions — explicitly states: “You may only apply for asylum if you are arriving in or already physically present in the United States.”
And Trump is only “solving” a problem that exists only because Trump created the problem.
• Trump was the one who sought to illegally impose tariffs.
• At a time when illegal border crossings were at a twelve-year-low, Trump eliminated foreign aid designed to stabilize the social chaos that was the legacy of Reagan’s destabilizing policies in overthrowing democratically-elected administrations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. This destabilization took a bad, chaotic situation and skyrocketed it to a crisis of emergency proportions, driving up the numbers fleeing. And the Trump is shocked — shocked! — to discover that record low border crossings suddenly explode to record highs. What is really needed is not punitive measures that further destabilize, but a massive Marshall Plan of recovery from the lingering effects of Republican policies that created this mess..
Trump creating a problem and then bragging about fixing it is like arsonist who sets a fire, then comes back to put it out and wants to be proclaimed a hero. Or more like setting a fire and sending in a special squad to put it out that was created long ago.
Maybe next Trump will make a “deal” to add Hawaii and Alaska as new states /s
Trump’s “success” in negotiating with Mexico is all phony — fake; illusory — like everything else in his pathetic life.
• The deal was already worked out several months ago.
• As numerous commentators have pointed out, the provision that asylum seekers would apply from a foreign nation violates existing statutes and court decisions that Trump cannot unilaterally rewrite. In addition to the recently renegotiated NAFTA agreement (now re-christened USMCA), U.S. law — backed up by court decisions — explicitly states: “You may only apply for asylum if you are arriving in or already physically present in the United States.”
https://www.uscis.gov/faq-page/asylum-eligibility-and-applications-faq#t12802n40186
And Trump is only “solving” a problem that exists only because Trump created the problem.
• Trump was the one who sought to illegally impose tariffs.
• At a time when illegal border crossings were at a twelve-year-low, Trump eliminated foreign aid designed to stabilize the social chaos that was the legacy of Reagan’s destabilizing policies in overthrowing democratically-elected administrations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. This destabilization took a bad, chaotic situation and skyrocketed it to a crisis of emergency proportions, driving up the numbers fleeing. And the Trump is shocked — shocked! — to discover that record low border crossings suddenly explode to record highs. What is really needed is not punitive measures that further destabilize, but a massive Marshall Plan of recovery from the lingering effects of Republican policies that created this mess..
Trump creating a problem and then bragging about fixing it is like arsonist who sets a fire, then comes back to put it out and wants to be proclaimed a hero. Or more like setting a fire and sending in a special squad to put it out that was created long ago.
Maybe next Trump will make a “deal” to add Hawaii and Alaska as new states /s