Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, with Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Mexico City on Friday.CreditCarlos Jasso/Reuters
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MEXICO CITY — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led a high-level cabinet delegation to Mexico City on Friday to gauge how Mexico’s president-elect intends to reset the fractious relationship between the two countries.
The president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who has pledged to fight corruption and tackle Mexico’s entrenched poverty, was ready for the delegation. He handed Mr. Pompeo a series of proposals on trade, development, security and migration — the issues that are at the heart of the relationship and the source of much of the friction.
Despite the tensions, which have grown under President Trump, Marcelo Ebrard, who will be the next foreign minister, said that he had “reasonable optimism” that Mexico would find “bases for understanding” to improve the relationship.
“The foundation for understanding is development and mutual respect,” Mr. Ebrard said, adding that the transition team would provide more details on the proposals once Mr. Trump responded, perhaps as early as next week.
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WNU Editor: The number one issue that is separating both countries is illegal immigration. The second being the low wages that Mexican workers are being paid that undermines U.S. workers who cannot compete, as well as environmental and other regulations that are far less stringent in Mexico than in the U.S.. The flow of drugs into the U.S. is the next issue, and how to address the crisis that is enveloping countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua are next.
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2 comments:
Most nations in the Pacific region and in Mexico and Central America paid much less than American wages. That said, if Am worked at min wage, they still could not compete financially with workers from those areas
Drugs come in from South of our border, and from Net, and from our allies in Afghanistan...this is hardly the big issue
illegals would not bother coming here if Am citizens did not hire tham...simple as that.
That's true, the problem is complex. We need to have some solution, even not perfect, to fix the relationship between neighbors. The old regulations have to be updated as the NAFTA treaty say(every two years), and Mexico has to fix it's own internal problems. Even small improvement is better than nothing or worse.
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