[CTC] Trump renews threat to tie border crossings to new NAFTA deal

[Anthony Torres]

our response: https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/988513134469107713?s=19


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Arthur Stamoulis <arthur at citizenstrade.org>
wrote:

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-renews-threat-to-tie-border-
> crossings-to-new-nafta-deal/2018/04/23/54ca4aa6-46dd-11e8-
> 8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ade844d6fccc
>
> *Trump renews threat to tie border crossings to new NAFTA deal*
>
> By John Wagner and David J. Lynch
> April 23, 2018
>
> President Trump renewed a threat Monday to make tighter control of the
> southern border a condition of broad trade deal that his administration is
> renegotiating with Canada and Mexico, saying, “Our Country cannot accept
> what is happening.”
>
> “Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from
> going through Mexico and into the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We may
> make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement.”
>
>
> Donald J. Trump
> ✔
> @realDonaldTrump
> Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from
> going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the
> new NAFTA Agreement. Our Country cannot accept what is happening! Also, we
> must get Wall funding fast.
>
> 9:51 AM - Apr 23, 2018
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>
> The president voiced similar concerns earlier this month, claiming that
> Mexico is doing little to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs
> into the United States and suggesting that he could use the North American
> Free Trade Agreement as leverage on those issues.
>
> Trump’s latest threat comes as trade negotiators are already grappling
> with thorny issues amid a rush to conclude at least the outlines of a deal
> in the next few weeks — a process that could be upended if Trump is serious
> about adding a border-crossing condition.
>
> The White House and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative did not
> immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the president had
> directed his negotiators to add language addressing that to the NAFTA talks.
>
> For the Republican-controlled Congress to vote on the deal, the process
> must begin soon, perhaps by reaching an agreement in principle that would
> cover the main provisions of a new deal, U.S. officials have said. Intense
> talks in recent weeks have made progress on the core issues, including
> rules for determining which automobiles are entitled to duty-free treatment
> under the accord.
>
> But negotiators have officially completed only six of 30 treaty chapters,
> and remain deadlocked on a handful of contentious U.S. proposals, including
> on government procurement, intellectual property, investor-state dispute
> procedures and treaty expiration.
>
> Trump has long been a critic of NAFTA. Earlier this month, in a White
> House meeting with governors and members of Congress, he labeled the treaty
> “a disaster” and suggested that he might terminate the deal before
> concluding, “I’m not going to do that.”
>
> The talks are continuing, with Canada and Mexico receiving a temporary
> exemption from Trump’s import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent
> on aluminum. Those are scheduled to expire May 1 but could be extended if
> the talks are progressing.
>
> Trump also lashed out at Democrats on Twitter on Monday about support for
> “sanctuary cities,” which offer protection to undocumented immigrants.
>
> And he said he had instructed his homeland security secretary not to allow
> reported caravans of people traveling from Central America through Mexico
> to be admitted to the United States.
>
> “It is a disgrace,” Trump said. “We are the only Country in the World so
> naive!”
>
>
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Anthony Vidal Torres
Campaign Strategist for A Living Economy
Sierra Club
202-495-3027
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