Mexico eyes border, migration as leverage in talks with Trump

jaylove16 · 12-29-2016, 02:27 PM

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Mexico aims to defend free trade with the United States by using border security and immigration policy to gain leverage in talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after he takes office next month, senior officials say.
To defuse Trump's threats to disrupt trade and investment, policymakers say Mexico aims to strike a balance between hearing out his concerns over illegal immigration and U.S. jobs, and adopting a firm posture to protect its own economic interests.
Mexico wants security, immigration and management of the U.S.-Mexican border to be on the table alongside trade when it sits down to talk to the Trump administration, a person familiar with the government's thinking said, speaking on condition of anonymity

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That could translate into Mexico offering to reinforce its northern border to curb drug smuggling and migrants, said one former high-level official familiar with discussions in Mexico.
It might also mean giving the United States a bigger part to play in securing Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, where many thousands of illegal immigrants from the rest of Latin America pass through every year on their way to the United States, a senior Mexican government official said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN14H0QZ

JohannBernoulli1667 · 04:56 PM

This sounds promising. I would not be surprised if Mexico-US relations are stengthened during a Trump administration. Mexican corrupt politicians are just the kinds of people that Trump likes.