The President's effort to coerce Mexico into blocking the emigration of its own people undermines the distinction between keeping people out and locking them in. It thereby makes US immigration policy analogous to the Berlin Wall.
Politically. Economically. Diplomatically. Legally. Trump's tariff threat against Mexico is a stunningly stupid maneuver no matter how you look at it.
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Nine years after his shooting death on the border, the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca may finally get a chance to hold the border agent accountable.
The plan is likely to backfire and cause more illegal border crossings by the people most desperately in need.
Oh, and the U.S. auto industry wouldn't even last that long.
It's wrong any way you slice it.
Plus: Stormy Daniels hints at more legal action and California ends the death penalty.
How to ensure lack of transparency and prevent asylum seekers from accessing rights.
"We are used to seeing the federal government make decisions about our surroundings," one resident said.
The supposed border "crisis" is already solving itself.
"The decline is due almost entirely to a sharp decrease in the number of Mexicans entering the country without authorization."
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Candidates used to let political operatives do the dirty work so they could appear above it all. Not Trump.
The court says the government may not prosecute people for possession, use, or home cultivation of marijuana.
Is Trump's anti-immigration position deeply held or just a way of getting the vote out?
Trump's new United States Mexico Canada Agreement mostly maintains the NAFTA status quo, but it sets new mandates for cars made in Mexico and Canada.
The deal empowers "government bureaucrats rather than markets to determine the components in cars and other goods," says Sen. Ben Sasse.
Canada holds the upper hand, as the Trump administration and Mexico rush to finalize new trade deal before Friday's critical deadline.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador's populist campaign promised to tackle corruption, impose price controls, and rewrite NAFTA.
The president's trade policy makes as much sense as Canadian Bacon, the farcical 1995 film about a trumped up war against Canada.
Justin Trudeau and others condemn Trump's protectionist tactics, then respond with protectionism of their own.
As our economy continues to grow, why are we still looking for scapegoats?
"Mexican culture cannot be reduced to tacos, oversized sombreros and piñatas." True, but those shouldn't be off-limits either.
You don't have to worry about the wall when you work in the cloud.
It's a story of assimilation and plain old consumer choice.
Coco is legit, which is why people are seeing it in droves.
This isn't the first time the MSM have gotten their tortilla-chip meal provenance wrong.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador is running a populist campaign aimed at those left behind by globalization and angry at the country's elites. And he might win.
The president is doing everything he can do to alienate libertarians who believe in shrinking the size, scope, and spending of government.
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
Economist Roberto Salinas-León on how free trade fuels prosperity on both sides of the border.
If we can't get people to stop using heroin, suggests Matt Mayer, why don't we just invade the country that produces it?
Trump threatened to withdraw from NAFTA to get Mexico and Canada to the table, but there's no clear goal for negotiations.
This will encourage even more attempts to seize people's money and property.
But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn't being very neighborly.
A Mexican senator will introduce a bill to end all corn imports from the U.S.
Even by the wasteful standards of the War on Drugs, Trump's wall looks like a boondoggle. But legalization in some states is already hurting the cartels.
The president fulfills his xenophobic campaign promises.
How America can relight the lamp beside its golden door.
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