RE: Another Day - Another Leak Mexico Isn't Paying For The Fucking Wall
August 5, 2017 at 11:02 pm
(August 5, 2017 at 8:05 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: It's easy to get Mexico to pay for the wall if you're willing to do what it takes to make them pay. Of course such action will also cost the US a lot, more than the cost of the wall itself but it's the principle of the thing.
Simply break diplomatic relations with Mexico and forbid all exports, imports, and travel between the countries. We will lose a lot of food (Tequila, Twinkies and fruit) and manufactured imports (cars and air conditioners). The airlines and cruise ship operators will lose business. And we could forcibly expel all Mexican citizens. But we had such a system in place against Cuba for decades.
The easiest way to get Mexico to pay for the wall is to simply stop giving them tens of $millions in foreign aid each year until the wall is paid off.
You can always do anything you want to if you have the guts to do it and are willing to pay the price.
You might want to consider the Law of Unintended Consequences. Without aid, can they stop the narcotraficantes? Who is it, you think, who is smuggling people as well as drugs? And when Mexico's exports fall because of your recommended embargo, what do you think will happen to those Volkswagen factories? And more to the point, what do you think will happen when those people realize they're jobless?
Banning travel between the two countries will surely raise food prices in our own, based on either higher labor costs, or reduced supply.
To hell with a wall. I say tell them, come here, check in for a photo and a fingerprint set, here's a taxpayer ID number, and get your ass to work.
You suggestion is a matter of the nation cutting off its nose to spite its face.
