After months of restraint, Mexico adopts new strategy: Standing up to Donald Trump

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

MEXICO CITY — The rise of Donald Trump and the anti-immigrant wave he is riding in his presidential primary campaign have alarmed the Mexican government so much that it has reshuffled top diplomats and, according to officials, adopted a new strategy — to defend the image of Mexicans abroad.

Trump has consistently targeted the United States’ southern neighbor, calling Mexican border-crossers “rapists” and criminals and threatening to cut off the money they send home to their families unless Mexico pays for a border wall. But for months, the Mexican government has opted to remain quiet, with a few high-profile exceptions, rather than publicly challenging Trump’s claims.

Under mounting domestic pressure, Mexican officials now say they have chosen a new strategy: to stand up for Mexicans and defend the reputation of their countrymen living in the United States.

“In recent months, we have seen a growing anti-immigrant discourse in general, anti-Mexican in particular, and not exclusively from Donald Trump,” said a Mexican official who was not authorized to speak publicly on this issue. “This set off our fear that it would damage the image of Mexico in the United States.”

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[surrealAmerican]

1. Your headline doesn't match the rest of your post.

What about the Maine Senate?

[jpak]

2. I fixed it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Trump so stupid with wall plan: regarding remittances

Trump wants to hold the remittances to Mexico hostage as payment for his wall.

He's so stupid he can't see it will fail. People will send remittances to third parties in other countries who will send them on to Mexico.

So many ways around it.

[SDjack]

5. Maybe they can set up a Clinton Foundation-type money washing machine,

kinda like the Canadian version but with a subsidiary in Mexico. Of course, it should be established as a Panama corporation. Money goes into the machine, it gets scrubbed, spun, and dried. Next, it pops out in Mexico and credited to numbered account.

[Angel Martin]

6. LOL !

SDJack, you are today's winner of the internets !

[Chakab]

4. Wouldn't it be more productive to focus on improving the standard of living in the country so that

its citizens don't have to put themselves at great risk to migrate to other countries in contravention of their immigration laws?

[hamsterjill]

7. Trump sure doesn't understand diplomacy, does he?

When he backs these governments into a corner, they are going to (obviously) come out swinging.

This will be a scenario that gets repeated again and again and again if we are forced to suffer through this idiot being in the White House.