Mexico Agrees To Shut Down Migrant Flow, Work On Stopping Drug Flow
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/27/trump-conversation-mexico-president-agreed-stop-migration/
I was honestly expecting the Mexican President to make some feminist grand stand and act like putting tit for tat sanctions on the US was a good idea- until she is thrown out of office, or some cartel took her out.
So she has agreed. The Mexican Army uses the draft, and is active against the cartels, but is puny.
I'm hoping that DOGE scraps the LCS "Little Crappy Ships" program feom the Navy. Congress mandates the Navy has these ships, and the Navy is afraid to use them outside of ports, but I think Mexico could make use of them in coastal waters as drug interdiction ships. I'm saying this because I suspect Mexico is going to point out it is not prepared to go full force against the cartels at the Mexican border in terms of military strength. I don't mind giving them deep storage equipment. Let their generals come out to mothballed stlrage sites and see what we have to offer. Some free, some given on a discounted, long term loan.
Smashing the cartels would lead to a major economic boom for Mexico. They have alot of engineers, but a weak banking system, and this means engineers can't get loans to start businesses. In order to give the loans, banks need money, and money comes from savings.... and alot of the economy is in the hands of cartels, who don't have easy access to banks, at least internationally reputible ones able to do international bank transfers.
One of the best things that can happen to Mexico is smashing the cartels. They are currently in a state of civil war against them, stopping the drug trade would be a massive ramping up of it. It means expanding the Mexican Draft as well- and that takes time, and facilities. US could shoulder some of the training- we have enough troops who can speak Mexican Spanish to train them in infantry tactics in Mexico or the US.
I was honestly expecting the Mexican President to make some feminist grand stand and act like putting tit for tat sanctions on the US was a good idea- until she is thrown out of office, or some cartel took her out.
So she has agreed. The Mexican Army uses the draft, and is active against the cartels, but is puny.
I'm hoping that DOGE scraps the LCS "Little Crappy Ships" program feom the Navy. Congress mandates the Navy has these ships, and the Navy is afraid to use them outside of ports, but I think Mexico could make use of them in coastal waters as drug interdiction ships. I'm saying this because I suspect Mexico is going to point out it is not prepared to go full force against the cartels at the Mexican border in terms of military strength. I don't mind giving them deep storage equipment. Let their generals come out to mothballed stlrage sites and see what we have to offer. Some free, some given on a discounted, long term loan.
Smashing the cartels would lead to a major economic boom for Mexico. They have alot of engineers, but a weak banking system, and this means engineers can't get loans to start businesses. In order to give the loans, banks need money, and money comes from savings.... and alot of the economy is in the hands of cartels, who don't have easy access to banks, at least internationally reputible ones able to do international bank transfers.
One of the best things that can happen to Mexico is smashing the cartels. They are currently in a state of civil war against them, stopping the drug trade would be a massive ramping up of it. It means expanding the Mexican Draft as well- and that takes time, and facilities. US could shoulder some of the training- we have enough troops who can speak Mexican Spanish to train them in infantry tactics in Mexico or the US.
