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2018-06-20

Former NYPD Commish Kerik Encourages Trump to Hold Mexico 'Accountable' on Immigration

[PJ] Responding on Twitter to a post written Monday by PJ Media Washington Editor Bridget Johnson, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik had this to say:

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.@POTUS @realDonaldTrump - #Mexico should be held accountable in the strongest of terms because if they wanted this surge of illegal immigration to stop, they would have stopped it. Mexico is endangering their own country's children, and our @ICEgov @DHSgov enforcement personnel.

Johnson's post quoted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' remark during a speech when he said there was "an important conversation occurring in this country about whether we want to be a country of laws or whether we want to be a country without borders."

Kerik brings up something that has long been a sore spot for border state dwellers no matter who is in the White House at the time: no one in the immigration "debate" ever brings up Mexico's culpability in the problem.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is now a fierce, loudmouthed critic of President Trump when it comes to people crossing illegally from his country into the United States. When he was in office and asked about Mexico doing its part to stem the flow of illegal immigration, Fox weakly replied, "What can Mexico do to prevent undocumented workers from entering the United States?"

There has been almost no pressure on any Mexican president by any American president of either party to get involved in what almost all would agree is an untenable border situation. Maybe Mexico can't stop the problem completely, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be participating in the solution, as well as being held accountable for being part of the problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-20 03:41|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Start pulling people out of the US EMBASSY Mexico City, and reducing their (Mexican Embassy) staffing in D.C. Start with the ECON sections. They'll soon get the message.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-20 03:47|| 2018-06-20 03:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Say a 72 hour closing of the border, to include flights between the two countries (didn't we shut flights on 9/11?). Just as a message.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-20 07:04|| 2018-06-20 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The only thing one can conclude is the Congress of the United States does NOT WANT to do anything about illegal immigration, the financial drain on the taxpayer, MS-13 outlaws, and related criminal activity.

What am I missing ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-20 07:08|| 2018-06-20 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 and #3, You are not missing anything. There is a great need to fix things at the border and on this side of the border while at the same time pressuring Mexico.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-20 08:30|| 2018-06-20 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Personnaly, I'm getting fed up with this football getting down and all around the field while nothing ever gets done to solve the problem. The immigration problem got created in Washington not out here.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-20 08:35|| 2018-06-20 08:35|| Front Page Top

Her blood and the blood of many others is on the hands of these onerous Washington bureaucrats. I will never forget that.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-20 08:42|| 2018-06-20 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Soon to be seen at a border near you:

Bomb thrown at border police at Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron

Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-20 09:44|| 2018-06-20 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Fox weakly replied, "What can Mexico do to prevent undocumented workers from entering the United States?"

My understanding is a goodly portion of the 'immigrant's are not Mexican but from Central American countries like Guatemala. This means they have illegally crossed the southern border of Mexico and traveled across Mexico in order to show up at the margins of the United States.

Since smuggling people is a profitable enterprise, it will continue until the Mexican government feels enough pain to take an interest in stopping it. Trump might be just the man to do it.

Posted by SteveS 2018-06-20 10:53|| 2018-06-20 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 The border line from Tapachula to Chetumal is a lot shorter than San Diego to Brownsville. Maybe he CAN talk Mex into building a wall.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-20 11:35|| 2018-06-20 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Start pulling people out of the US EMBASSY Mexico City, and reducing their (Mexican Embassy) staffing in D.C. Start with the ECON sections. They'll soon get the message.

Say a 72 hour closing of the border, to include flights between the two countries (didn't we shut flights on 9/11?). Just as a message.

Well, it is a war and it's about damn time people on both sides of the border got wise to the fact. The fact that Mexico sends women and children to fight this war is a demonstration of how chickenshit they are.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-06-20 12:28|| 2018-06-20 12:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Anything attempting to cross the border should be brought under fire and destroyed. Close the open border crossings. Tell Mexico to fix themselves or the next step will be a air/naval interdiction of ANYTHING trying to enter or leave Mexico.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-06-20 16:35|| 2018-06-20 16:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Let their viceroy be Dostum.
They deserve him.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-20 16:39|| 2018-06-20 16:39|| Front Page Top

#13 If all the emotionally scarred, separated children are being held in US internment camps, who will be left to sell Chicklets to drunken tourists in Tijuana at 3 AM?

Posted by Capsu78 2018-06-20 18:19|| 2018-06-20 18:19|| Front Page Top

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