Darwoth wrote:also i suspect the real way mexico will pick up the tab will be through the renegotiated trade deals. since the US has all the power in that discussion it will be easy to leverage mexico into favorable terms.
I always figured it would be something like this. Obviously when Trump says Mexico is going to pay for the wall, Mexico is not going to just agree to cut a check or whatever and outright pay for it.
He's also already working on the second part, which might be more important, removing illegal immigrants. And he doesn't even have to change any laws to do it, the laws are already there. He gave a speech telling law enforcement agencies that he wants them to enforce the laws and that he will support them in their efforts, and authorizing a the hiring of more ICE agents. He's going to negotiate for Mexico to stop refusing to extradite criminals when we catch them. And he's already signed an EO declaring that federal funding will be withdrawn (excluding that needed for security) from any area that continues to refuse to enforce the laws we already have.
This is having an additional interesting effect of forcing Democrats to speak out against a powerful federal government and in favor of power to the local and state governments, something that Republicans want and have been fighting Democrats over for a long time, Democrats wanting a bigger federal government.
Which leads to an interesting theory I heard yesterday, that a good bit of Trump's egotistical posturing might be mostly him trolling and distracting the media, making them run around doing a lot of extra fact checking to prove that Trump's crowd wasn't the biggest or he doesn't have a 112% approval rating while he just rolls along getting **** done. He certainly does seem to be working hard to do all the things he said he would, making him truthful where it really counts, so I don't know, maybe? If so, he's a mad genius and I look forward to seeing what happens next.
