Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked President Joe Biden after his administration announced they would send more than 2.5 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to ease a vaccine shortage in the country. “We thank President Biden for sending us these vaccines,” Lopez Obrador said, noting that the vaccines should arrive by next week. He…
When they were asked, the White House couldn’t answer how new tariffs on Mexico would stop migrants from crossing the Southern border.
As his political situation becomes more desperate, Donald Trump has begun to threaten even more desperate moves to stop the influx of undocumented immigrants at the Mexican border. Yesterday Trump “threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico ‘doesn’t immediately stop all illegal…
According to a new article this morning in the Washington Post, “President Donald Trump has threatened to summon the military to close the U.S.-Mexico border and upend a trade deal.” The Post said that the president has been experiencing “mounting frustration with a large caravan of migrants from Honduras that has been making its way toward the…
It’s bad enough that Trump is pushing an inhumane immigration policy that the vast majority of Americans don’t support. Worse, he’s doing it at the expense of our environment.
Once again, the realities of governing a country and making sound policy have collided with the empty and ill-informed rhetoric Trump spewed on the campaign trail.
The best way to get under Donald Trump’s very thin skin is to mock and ridicule him, and it appears Democrats have no problem doing just that.
That’s right: Trump just lost a trade battle with Mexico – over tuna fish.
“Don’t let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.”
This is yet another huge loss for Trump, whose winless streak continues as the 100-day mark approaches.
Instead of allowing the young man to retrieve proof of his DACA protections and stay in the country, he was shipped back to Mexico.
“You aren’t doing enough to stop them,” Trump said. “I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.”
“I would say, Senor Trump ‘Please please grow up. I mean, now you’re President of a great nation…please grow up, be or try to be a real president.”
“Oh my God. These are spoiled children playing with loaded guns…Now they’re trying to walk it back…How are we going to survive years of this?”
It’s clear the White House doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing – and it seems to span all levels of the administration.
Since Trump won the election last year, he and his supporters have slowly transitioned from saying that Mexico will pay or the wall to admitting that U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill.
In recent days, Trump has embarrassed himself both over China and Mexico, tweeting off-the-cuff ruminations about issues of critical importance
One of Trump’s first acts as president will be showing his supporters that he was just playing them for suckers. Will they notice?
“There was only one reason I did this, and the reason was to confront the risk and a direct threat to the future of Mexico.”
On Trump’s signature issue, voters overwhelmingly trust Hillary Clinton over him.
When Trump finally had the opportunity to show that he could talk tough and fight for his policies outside the setting of a political rally, he folded like a cheap lawn chair.
Hillary Clinton needed less than one minute to expose Trump’s trip to Mexico as the Republican nominee’s latest empty publicity stunt.
Vicente Fox corrected Donald Trump in no uncertain terms, “I invited you to come and apologize to all Mexicans. Stop lying! Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect.”
Another highly-respected organization has warned the world about the global threat of a Trump victory in November.
From 2009 to 2014, 140,000 more Mexican nationals left the United States than the number who entered.
Pointing to Sarah Palin, Maher asks, “Why are the people who demand that everyone speak English always the ones who can’t speak English?”
It’s gotten out of hand. There is stupid and then there is Oh My God You Can’t Be Serious stupid. The GOP reached that point and crossed it
Donald Trump reportedly told an audience of Hollywood conservatives that the United States should have invaded Mexico instead of Iraq.
President Obama quoted FDR on Cinco de Mayo as he made the case for immigration reform, the President quoted FDR, “As one of my predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt once said, ‘Remember, always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.’ “
All too often, the export of democracy has looked a lot like the export of imperialism, and America’s defense of freedom translated into right-wing dictatorships
President Obama and Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, talked yesterday about various issues involving the two countries, including Cuba, immigration, drug war violence and border security
Just think of it: Rick Perry and Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert would all be Mexico’s problem today if Santa Anna had won
During the Thursday broadcast of his radio show, right-wing mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh discussed the possibility that President Obama is responsible for the surge of immigrants coming in from Central America in recent months.
Two recent events have brought out the Republican Party’s inner racist demon — the GOP’s Senate primary runoff election in Mississippi and the current crisis at the border involving migrant children from Central America.
Sheriff Joe doesn’t say how, precisely, U.S. troops would accomplish their mission once we’ve got boots on the ground but as we know from Iraq, Republicans don’t actually worry about such things
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is known for going out of his way to make blatantly offensive and outlandish comments in order to bring attention to himself. He stayed true to his reputation on Wednesday.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement that is really a multi-trillion dollar gift that hands multi-nationals enormous powers
The Inspector General of the Justice Department has issued a 471-page report on Fast & Furious. AG, Eric Holder, was telling the truth.