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 @ISIDEWITHNewsimmigrationBorder WallDaily DiscussionBorder SecurityImmigration BanMexicoVenezuelaCaribbean•••1mo ago

The President of Mexico’s Proposal For Stemming Immigration

Plan Includes:

-The U.S. commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean

-Lift sanctions on Venezuela

-End the Cuban embargo

-Legalize law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S.

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 @EffervescentR3dStateAmerican Solidarity from Virginia commented…1mo1MO

The US will never, ever accept this, but it's a brilliant use of leverage by Mexico's President AMLO.

Biden wants AMLO's help to stop immigration. So AMLO demanded that the US:

-end its illegal blockade of Cuba

-lift its illegal sanctions on Venezuela

-give aid to poor countries

 @GrumpyPublicPolicySocialist from Texas agreed…1mo1MO

So basically they are asking the United States to stop behaving like a terrorist rogue state.

And they are asking for some money toward counteracting several decades of economic and political oppression engineered by US foreign policy.

 @LeftLeaningLeahGreen from Texas disagreed…1mo1MO

"terrorist rogue state" . As if Maduro getting his country sanctioned was somehow the US's fault

 @GrumpyPublicPolicySocialist from Texas disagreed…1mo1MO

I was more thinking along the lines of the US sphere of influence in Latin America, all the covert interference of US intelligence in the electoral process in these nations, all of the sanctions meant to punish non-compliance with US interests but which cause suffering starvation and death among regular civilians, and also hyperinflation (food prices doubled overnight, literally)...the sanctions themselves are a form of terrorism. Sometimes the sanctions end up hurting not so much the target but other poorer nations that depend on an export of the target--for example some Libyans are now starving for lack of being able to buy grain from Russia, which they have depended on in recent years to feed their population but which now lays rotting in the fields due to economic sanctions imposed by the US empire on Russia.

 @ActivistTerryGreen from Arizona agreed…1mo1MO

These would be policies that would actually help the U.S. and help solve the problem we want solved. So it’ll never happen.

 @EffervescentR3dStateAmerican Solidarity from Virginia agreed…1mo1MO

It’s disturbing how little people realize that helping other countries stabilize would reduce *our* immigration problems.

 @LoyalEqu4lityDemocratfrom New York commented…1mo1MO

Blunt and to the point. The U.S. is not a stabilizing force in its own neighborhood. A destabilizing force regarding its 60 plus years of embargo to impoverish Cubans. Ironically the U.S. also wants to sow discord and create mess in Asia.

 @DolphinPatRepublican from Minnesota disagreed…1mo1MO

Blunt and to the point, like the Tiananmen Square massacre.

 @GrudgingTurtleSocialist from Texas commented…1mo1MO

He’s correct and people complaining about it have no idea how much of our history involves screwing over Latin American countries.

We are getting off cheap for $20b a year.

 @UnstoppableOatmealLibertarian from Wisconsin disagreed…1mo1MO

We owe zero to any country. Furthermore, citizens owe zero to our govt.

Your feelings have no moral authority. And if you believe our govt has acted corruptly, then disband it instead of asking its citizens to pay for their transgressions. We are foes with govt, not benefactors.

 @GrudgingTurtleSocialist from Texas disagreed…1mo1MO

You clearly have no idea what we’ve done to SA. We owe them a lot.

 @UnstoppableOatmealLibertarian from Wisconsin disagreed…1mo1MO

citizens don't owe anyone anything via govt mistakes. disband the govt, not the citizens wallets via more egregious taxes

 @ISIDEWITHasked…1mo1MO

How do you perceive the fairness of legalizing law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. as part of a strategy to manage immigration?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…1mo1MO

How would you feel if your government spent $20 billion a year to help improve conditions in another country to prevent immigration?

 @E1ectionSerenityConstitution from Kansas commented…1mo1MO

No.

Shut the damn border and stop remissions back to Mexico and start the largest mass deportation in American history.

 @ISIDEWITHasked…1mo1MO

Should historical political conflicts, like the Cuban embargo, be set aside in the pursuit of reducing immigration pressures?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…1mo1MO

If lifting sanctions on Venezuela could potentially reduce immigration, would you support it despite any political disagreements?

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