01-26-2017, 10:35 PM
(01-26-2017, 03:18 PM)Benton Wrote: My brother and his family go to Reynosa every year with their church to build houses for people who need them. It's a pretty violent city controlled by drug cartels. The people don't have any way of opposing them, so the cartels do what they want. It's a pretty rough place, and I can only see those people getting stronger going this direction as they'll have more money and more control over who comes and goes.
I assume he plans on "making them pay for it" by cutting off the $400ish million we give them each year in economic and military aide. Which is a hugely dumb idea.
Sure, it will allow him to say he's "making" them pay for it, but a big chunk of that money goes to Mexico because we've got a giant border and they don't have the resources to defend/patrol it for us. If we cut off that aide, I imagine one of the first things Mexico does is end their patrols along the border (because why should they give a crap if people go north and send money home).
I guarantee that the cartels give kickbacks to the Mexican government.
Trump knows this and will use drones to knock out cartel production facilities and caravans.
I'd also wager he's tight with the big players in Mexican resort towns.
He's going to find a way to give the Mexican government the shaft.
