<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.citizen.org/news/tariffs-should-not-be-weaponized-for-an-anti-immigrant-agenda/" class="">https://www.citizen.org/news/tariffs-should-not-be-weaponized-for-an-anti-immigrant-agenda/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: inherit; font: 900 56px/0.93 var(--ff_2); letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><font size="5" class="">Tariffs Should Not Be Weaponized for an Anti-Immigrant Agenda</font></b></span></div><div class=""><div class="-mb:2" style="margin: 0px auto var(--s2); padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4);"></div><div class="-hide>medium share1 -hide@print" style="margin: 0px auto var(--s2); padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; right: 0px; top: auto; z-index: unset; bottom: 0px; width: auto; max-width: var(--xw_4);"><div class="share1-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; top: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); align-items: center; caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the weekend, President Trump </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqQjxHvHdCY" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-shadow: 0px -1px inset; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; cursor: pointer; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">threatened</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Colombia with 25-50% tariffs if the country continued to reject U.S. military planes of deported Colombian migrants. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Global Trade Watch Director Melinda St. Louis</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> issued the following statement: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">“Trump is wielding tariffs like a schoolyard bully to advance a hateful agenda. Using the threat of tariffs as a weapon in a broader anti-immigrant campaign is a reprehensible misuse of trade policy and should be vehemently opposed.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">“While </span><a href="https://www.citizen.org/article/a-progressive-explainer-on-tariffs/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-shadow: 0px -1px inset; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; cursor: pointer; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">tariffs</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> can play a constructive role in protecting U.S. jobs and enforcing labor and environmental standards when part of a strategic industrial policy, Trump’s approach is neither strategic nor appropriate. Using tariffs to bully countries, particularly to promote an anti-humanitarian agenda, does nothing to support U.S. workers. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto var(--sy); padding: 0px; color: rgb(3, 27, 68); transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: var(--xw_4); caret-color: rgb(3, 27, 68); font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit; transition: none var(--t8n_d1) ease; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">“To the extent there is a connection between trade and immigration policy, it is that decades of U.S. trade policy created with outsized corporate influence led to agricultural dumping, worker exploitation, and environmental degradation that has forced many people in Latin America to migrate in search of a better life. Rather than demonizing immigrants or blaming other countries, our leaders must overhaul our broken trade policies to address these root causes of migration and protect the rights of migrant workers.”</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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