"Former Mexican President Vicente Fox told me, "Trump has a dangerous mindset, and these tariffs will impact tens of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers, and further alienate the U.S. from their economic partners.” He noted that, "the big three, General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler, all have large production sites in Mexico."
"Trump’s trade war with Mexico also threatens passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. For all of the rhetoric coming from the White House,
NAFTA was actually a miracle. It wasn’t a perfect agreement, and it certainly needed to be revised, but according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NAFTA supports 14 million jobs for U.S. workers. According to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, more than $583 billion is traded each year with Mexico. That’s $1 million every minute in trade going back and forth between our two economies."
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On the issue of illegal immigration, Fox told me:
“This is not a national emergency for Trump, it’s a political emergency because for too long, he has painted Mexico as the enemy, and campaigned that he was going to build a wall, and that Mexico would pay for it. Let me be clear, Mexico is not paying for that wall. And now, he struggles to find the funding from Congress to pay for a silly campaign promise.”
Trump's lose-lose-lose Mexican tariffs