Mexico won't pay a cent

[TheNorwegian]

Trump said that if elected he will build a wall along the Mexican border, and make the Mexicans pay for it. Not surprisingly, the Mexicans say they will not pay a cent for this.

My question is: Does Trump have a plan on how he will enforce his will on other nations? How will he make the Mexicans pay for a wall? In a similar vein: Other nations will not just sit back and do nothing if the US put trade sanctions and import tolls in order to bring jobs back to America. What will Trump do when European and Asian nations put restriction and tolls on imports from the US?

I could give more examples of how a decision by a US president cannot easily make decisions on behalf of other nations. I predict that this will lead to frustration. Will the US use military force to have their way - or how will they enforce their plans?

 

[mindlight]

Trump said that if elected he will build a wall along the Mexican border, and make the Mexicans pay for it. Not surprisingly, the Mexicans say they will not pay a cent for this.

My question is: Does Trump have a plan on how he will enforce his will on other nations? How will he make the Mexicans pay for a wall? In a similar vein: Other nations will not just sit back and do nothing if the US put trade sanctions and import tolls in order to bring jobs back to America. What will Trump do when European and Asian nations put restriction and tolls on imports from the US?

I could give more examples of how a decision by a US president cannot easily make decisions on behalf of other nations. I predict that this will lead to frustration. Will the US use military force to have their way - or how will they enforce their plans?

He has to use a carrot here as there is no stick. He cannot make Mexico pay unless he does a deal in the background for which they would be willing to pay the cost of losing face and cash and having 10 million people dumped on them. IN other words he has to give them more than the value of the wall and relocation costs of 10 million people to get it built. Starting a trade war with Mexico would not cost out and a real war is extremely unlikely - so where is the stick here?

This is racist and heartless nonsence from Trump.

 

[Ada Lovelace]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ot-pay-for-donald-trumps-f-wall/?tid=pm_pop_b

Of course The Donald being himself wagged his finger in third grade fashion from his Twitter soapbox about a profane word being used, obtusely ignoring the fact that many people find his behavior and propaganda to be far more obscene. Or that he's used the same word publicly.....several times. On a related note: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/vicente-fox-donald-trump-hitler/

 

[grandvizier1006]

Trump said that if elected he will build a wall along the Mexican border, and make the Mexicans pay for it. Not surprisingly, the Mexicans say they will not pay a cent for this.

My question is: Does Trump have a plan on how he will enforce his will on other nations? How will he make the Mexicans pay for a wall? In a similar vein: Other nations will not just sit back and do nothing if the US put trade sanctions and import tolls in order to bring jobs back to America. What will Trump do when European and Asian nations put restriction and tolls on imports from the US?

I could give more examples of how a decision by a US president cannot easily make decisions on behalf of other nations. I predict that this will lead to frustration. Will the US use military force to have their way - or how will they enforce their plans?

He won't actually do it. In America, politicians lie to get elected. No one pays attention to them during their time in office because Americans just tend to be dumber about those things.

 

[Saleena]

We gonna wall him in.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

I dunno.....He got the media to pay for his campaign.........

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The Mexicans won’t pay a Centavo, not a cent.

 

[Audacious]

I'm still confused as to why they would want to. Like... where's the incentive?

If I were them I wouldn't pay any money for another country to build a creepy wall either.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

If Trump is elected he will take the matter under advisement and will come to a different conclusion and plan, just as all other presidents before him have done on various campaign promises. The "wall" is Trump's "Guantanamo". (Note: I'm betting that Guantanamo will still be operating when Obama leaves office.)

 

[stamperben]

(Note: I'm betting that Guantanamo will still be operating when Obama leaves office.)

Yes, seeing as how an obstructionist congress won't let him close it...

The challenge in closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is not actually the detention facility itself. The problem is the 166 detainees, each of whom has to be moved somewhere else. A basic premise of Gitmo, after all, was that these are people would be kept in perpetual limbo. Each detainee can leave that limbo through one of four different routes: a civilian trial, a military tribunal, a foreign country's prison system or freedom.

Sounds simple enough, right? Except that the first two routes – civilian trial or military tribunal – were blocked by Congress, which passed legislation barring the federal government from funding trials for Guantanamo detainees or buying a prison in the U.S. to house them.​

Why hasn’t Obama closed Guantanamo Bay?

 

[cow451]

If Trump is elected he will take the matter under advisement and will come to a different conclusion and plan, just as all other presidents before him have done on various campaign promises. The "wall" is Trump's "Guantanamo". (Note: I'm betting that Guantanamo will still be operating when Obama leaves office.)

It will be bogged down in budgetary issues and regulatory matters and he'll blame Congress for it. Not to mention the world-class demonstrations on site.

 

[Oafman]

An invasion of Mexico would not be a challenge for the US military machine.

It would be over very quickly. In fact, it might be described as a Blitzkrieg.

Once Mexico is ruled from Washington, they'll pay for the wall. Or they'll be sent to 'labour' camps.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

An invasion of Mexico would not be a challenge for the US military machine.

It would be over very quickly. In fact, it might be described as a Blitzkrieg.

Once Mexico is ruled from Washington, they'll pay for the wall. Or they'll be sent to 'labour' camps.

They will welcome us, and we can take their oil and silver!!
It will pay for itself!

 

[cow451]

They will welcome us, and we can take their oil and silver!!
It will pay for itself!

We'll be liberators! It'll be great. We'll go to war with all the drug cartels. It'll be better than the Mexican-American War. It'll be great.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

We'll be liberators! It'll be great. We'll go to war with all the drug cartels. It'll be better than the Mexican-American War. It'll be great.

Then we can make a movie and have Johnny Depp and “Machete” star in it!

 

[nightflight]

Maybe there's not enough funding left from maintaining Mexico's border with Guatemala.

 

[cow451]

Then we can make a movie and have Johnny Depp and “Machete” star in it!

And Selma Hayek as the maiden rescued by Seal Team Trump.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

And Selma Hayek as the maiden rescued by Seal Team Trump.

If there is a way we can have the ghost of Pablo Escobar in this, I think we have a movie here.

 

[cow451]

If there is a way we can have the ghost of Pablo Escobar in this, I think we have a movie here.

The federales can name a brigade after him.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Maybe there's not enough funding left from maintaining Mexico's border with Guatemala.

Hmmm, the satellite imagery I just looked at shows jungle for 98% of the border and no brown desert anywhere.