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In reply to the discussion: Mexico tells Texas and the Supreme Court to fuck off [View all]NanaCat
(1,502 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.