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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Mexico comes out and says that it will not permit Texas to deport people back to Mexico under the terms of SB4.
Roberto Velasco Álvarez
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México externa su rechazo a la decisión de la Suprema Corte de 🇺🇸 por la entrada en vigor de la ley SB4. Nuestro país no aceptará repatriaciones por parte del estado de Texas. El diálogo en materia migratoria continuará entre los gobiernos federales de 🇲🇽 y 🇺🇸.
2:41 PM · Mar 19, 2024
sinkingfeeling
(51,493 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,725 posts)area51
(11,939 posts)Decent Texans don't deserve this.
TexasDem69
(1,886 posts)Seems like everyone should share the financial burden
NanaCat
(1,471 posts)That's why Texas was getting massive amounts of federal funds to deal with immigrants at the border.
What part of that are you and Abbott unable to comprehend about that?
dem4decades
(11,321 posts)JoseBalow
(2,573 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,659 posts)Warpy
(111,434 posts)and not between a country and an upstart province headed by a xenophobic toad.
The USSC decision was totally wrong headed.
Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)...with the understanding that the U.S. will not assist them as Mexico comes to reclaim territory.
HandmaidsTaleUntold
(256 posts)Hey Rethuglicans you think its ok to upset the current order and allow Russia to annex Ukraine. Well then you must support Mexico taking back Texas. If they secede it will make it that much easier to happen. Eff TX rethuglicans claiming piety while acting Satanic.
odins folly
(163 posts)And dont forget, the USA would be compelled to remove ALL US Government assets/ facilities from foreign soil without any Status of Forces agreement.
I do not mean to offend any present company who reside in TX, but fuck texas. Take all of our military bases, NASA and any and all defense contractors currently paid by the US Government and let them wallow in their self righteousness.
And when their power grid fails again and a hurricane hits them again no funds for foreign aid.
ripcord
(5,553 posts)marble falls
(57,461 posts)NickB79
(19,294 posts)They could simply relax their border activities a little along the Texas border, and all sorts of hell would occur for Texas authorities.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-mexico-pay-15-billion-us-border-security/story?id=86672772
Polybius
(15,520 posts)NanaCat
(1,471 posts)But that never occurs to the immigrant haters.
70sEraVet
(3,535 posts)Texas law enforcement has no right apprehending the citizens of another country just because they don't believe those citizens belong here.
ripcord
(5,553 posts)Along as SCOTUS blesses them they can arrest and deport people who enter the country illegally. Mexico has no say in the matter.
hunter
(38,349 posts)They can build a wall and make Texas pay for it.
They can insist on good manners from the Texas Spring Break crowd.
Those are flippant answers.
But seriously, there's a lot of ways Mexico could specifically mess with Texas.
NanaCat
(1,471 posts)But the mall in McAllen was among the highest per capita in shopper spending for the US--thanks to Mexican nationals shopping there.
Regardless of one shopping mall's spending stature, everyone on that border, and Mexico itself, knows that Mexican nationals do enjoy shopping in the US, and that they are buying far--far--higher ticket items in the US than Americans do in Mexico. The average purchase a Mexican national makes in the US on a given visit will be in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Few Americans spend that much outside of medications (and even then...) when they cross the Rio Grande to shop in Mexico. It's not even remotely close.
So only a fool can't figure out how Mexico could wreak havoc on Texas with expensive border crossings for their citizens who try to enter the state (and only that state), and tariffs on goods bought in Texas when the Mexican nationals return home (to defray the costs of Texas deporting people there who aren't Mexicans--which I guarantee will happen).
Texas bigots might just learn that Mexico has some arrows in their own quiver that they can fire in this dispute, if they want. And they will hit some targets far harder than Texas can hit them.
EX500rider
(10,888 posts)TexasDem69
(1,886 posts)Then Mexico should be required to accept them back right?
Iggo
(47,587 posts)NanaCat
(1,471 posts)Who aren't their own citizens, ship them back to Texas, and demand restitution to defray those costs.
Emile
(23,138 posts)peppertree
(21,712 posts)But without the whisky breath, thankfully.
Polybius
(15,520 posts)They love this SC decision, and don't care what Mexico says.
NanaCat
(1,471 posts)In the long run. It's probably far different from what all of the migrant bigots think they'll be saying about it then.
ShazzieB
(16,620 posts)I love this! Take that, Texas!
republianmushroom
(13,833 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,290 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,298 posts)Is there nothing these people can do that possess just one simple thin thread of compassion and goodness? Guess not.
Paladin
(28,283 posts)onecaliberal
(32,985 posts)ancianita
(36,212 posts)samnsara
(17,658 posts)F*** you trump.Is he still around?