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Mexican President Sending Troops to Border, Trump Delays Tariffs One Month

Mexican President Sending Troops to Border, Trump Delays Tariffs One Month

The art of negotiating.

How to negotiate: Start high and work down. Has anyone not sold a house before? Sheesh.

Well, President Donald Trump announced he and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum came to an agreement to delay the tariffs for one month:

I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country. We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high-level Representatives of Mexico. I look forward to participating in those negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we attempt to achieve a “deal” between our two Countries.

Trump slapped Mexico with 25% tariffs over the weekend to force the country to stop the border crisis and drugs crossing the border.

Sheinbaum wrote on X:

We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements:

1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.

2. The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.

3. Our teams will begin working today on two fronts: security and trade.

4.Se They are pausing tariffs for one month from now.

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Comments

I noticed the positive jump in the S&P and wondered what had happened.

Canada, you’re on the clock.


     
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    jakebizlaw in reply to Paddy M. | February 3, 2025 at 1:57 pm

    Not to nitpick, but the National Guard is not a militia, but is the federal police force, created by AMLO to replace the former “federales”. Trump can take a page from his book – disbanding the federal police force corruption but more significantly to ensure compliance.

Bang! Boom! Results.


 
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Dolce Far Niente | February 3, 2025 at 11:29 am

I sincerely hope she wants to reduce the power of the cartels over her broken country.

    I suspect that what she might want and what she can accomplish in her narco-state may be 2 different things.


     
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    moonmoth in reply to Dolce Far Niente. | February 3, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    That’s going to be very difficult, but so far she seems to be making a decent effort. Her job isn’t made any easier by Mexico’s lack of a 2A. Previous administrations in Mexico have routinely disarmed local militias that formed to protect their villages from cartels.


       
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      Dimsdale in reply to moonmoth. | February 3, 2025 at 12:42 pm

      So Mexico is a good demonstration of “if guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns,” and the disastrous results.


         
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        moonmoth in reply to Dimsdale. | February 3, 2025 at 1:01 pm

        Yes. That’s a point I’ve been making (in other forums) to anti-gunners, and also to gun owners who assert that John Q. Citizen has no need to own semiauto firearms w/ high-capacity magazines. Mexico has left the common citizen at the mercy of the cartels, and the Democrats intended to do the same.


       
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      BobM in reply to moonmoth. | February 3, 2025 at 12:45 pm

      If any one is wondering about the unusual sounding name for the Mexican prez, there’s a substantial number of Mexican Jews dating back to when they emigrated to Mexico to flee the Inquisition.

      A little background on the problem, at least as explained to me by a Mexican-Jewish coworker way back in the 90s – AFAIK it’s only gotten worse. The police and military are the opposite of well-paid, so when the cartels offer them (or politicians) the choice of “lead or gold” (ie a bullet to the brain or take my bribe) they usually take the bribe. He had extensive family south of the border, including one who was head of policing for an entire province and had to always have bodyguards. He said according to his cousin he was the ONLY police official in the entire country at that level who wasn’t working for the cartels.


         
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        nordic prince in reply to BobM. | February 3, 2025 at 2:09 pm

        It’s pretty much that way in just about any “third world” country – corruption is rampant, and the only way to get anything done is to grease a few palms.


           
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          BobM in reply to nordic prince. | February 3, 2025 at 3:05 pm

          Yeah…. according to Liberal Orthodoxy the reason most 3rd world nations remain 3rd world nations is because the “rich” nations steal their wealth.

          I would recommend to any open-minded liberals (the few that remain) P.J. O’Rourke’s book “Eat the Rich”, where, like Twain before him, he embarked on a World Tour – but in his case visiting hell hole nations to investigate how they became and remain HHNs.

          We can Foreign Aid till the cows come home and we have no money left to give, but as long as corruption and bad ideology run a HHN you might as well just throw your money on a bonfire and be done with it.


       
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      healthguyfsu in reply to moonmoth. | February 3, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      So are you happy to be in here celebrating things actually moving?

      She has 30 days to make actual moves.


         
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        moonmoth in reply to healthguyfsu. | February 4, 2025 at 8:45 am

        I’m relieved that the trade war has been averted. But celebrating? To me, securing the border militarily and deporting illegal immigrants en masse are dirty jobs that need to be done. Bragging about how great America is for achieving that through unhinged public threats against weaker neighboring countries is just sick.


 
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Peter Moss | February 3, 2025 at 11:33 am

If you yourself are perplexed by Trump 2.0 or if you have someone close to you that is suffering from Stage 4 metastatic TDS, may I suggest picking up a copy of Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) book, Win Bigly. It’s really a good read overall but Adams explains Trump in a way that even the most diseased liberals will say “Oh… Now I get it”

This story here is a perfect example.

Mexico today, but I wonder if Canada will be different. That clown Trudeau needs to go, his acolytes as well. Maybe Trump will get a bigger stick.

Trudeau next- meeting on phone with Trump at 3 pm

The intellectual Pygmies on the left assured me that tariffs don’t work? 😂😂

A lot of Canadian companies are being proactive–shipping goods ahead of the tariffs, and exploring investment and possible relocation to the US–it’s Trudeau and his supporters who are the issue

Wait! Wait! Wait! This can’t be true. Chuck Schumer said the sky is falling. The price of Avocados will go up 25% and we won’t have any dip for the super bowl.


 
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healthguyfsu | February 3, 2025 at 11:56 am

Where for art thou, moonmoth?


 
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JohnSmith100 | February 3, 2025 at 12:29 pm

That was quick, now will they actually do the job, or will cartels pay off Mexicans? And if they do, will we be able to finger the bad apples.


 
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Whitewall | February 3, 2025 at 3:35 pm

We have to be watchful for the simple fact that these cartels will infiltrate the 10k Federales.


 
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henrybowman | February 3, 2025 at 10:27 pm

Sheinbaum’s point #2 is pure face-saving.

It’s important for her to pretend that “about 70% of firearms recovered in Mexico and traced by authorities are sourced from the United States, with some estimates suggesting this figure could be as high as 80%.”

In reality, it’s 70% of guns that had any chance at all of being from the US in the first place (i.e., they had serial numbers), which is a mere 20% or so of the guns confiscated from the cartels to begin with… and almost NONE of those are “high-powered” or “fully automatic” firearms, which US citizens can barely get.

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