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Interesting article from 2017; https://www.cargroup.org/the-move-to-assemble-vehicles-in-mexico-is-about-more-than-low-wages/

Per American manufacture vehicle built in Mexico;

-Labor costs in Mexico represent a $600 savings.

-Parts cost in Mexico represent a $1500 savings.

-Transporting the vehicle to market a -$900 loss.

-Free trade agreement tariff savings $0.00.

Per Europeon manufacture vehicle built in Mexico;

-Labor costs in Mexico represent a $600 savings.

-Parts cost in Mexico represent a $1500 savings.

-Transporting the vehicle to market a -$300 loss.

-Free trade agreement tariff savings $2500.00.

Good post. 

The problem is everybody else does it and if Ford doesn't they fall behind. Dodge large trucks made in Mexico too. 

Also; Despite its moves to pull back on its EV ambitions, Ford expects its Model e unit losses to reach up to $5.5 billion as it continues to weigh down the company's bottom line. 

OK, I have, going back to 2016. Same roller coaster ride each year. Other years with higher peaks than now. 

The border has been open and has been an issue for decades it is not an emergency.

Sorry, but that is a spit your coffee out and laugh till it hurts statement. 

El Paso, 2023; El Paso will declare a "state of emergency" starting Monday in anticipation of a potential influx of thousands of migrants with the end of Title 42 pandemic law next week, Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a Sunday news conference.

Sept 2022; New York Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday over the “humanitarian crisis” of thousands of asylum-seekers who are being sent to his city from out of state.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an emergency declaration on Tuesday in response to the significant number of people arriving in Chicago who are seeking asylum in the U.S. since last year, what her office called a "national humanitarian crisis."

An unprecedented surge of 4,000 migrants streamed across the US border with Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday — forcing the overwhelmed city to declare a state of emergency.

Tell us all, when has cities declaring emergencies over migrants EVER HAPPENED BEFORE BIDEN??

NO, it's like this; Other presidents did their job and had assylum seekers go through the DUE PROCESS to become American citizens like my great-great grandparents did. Obama quickly rounded up those who just walked in and had them properly deported without any hearing or DUE PROCESS. Biden threw DUE PROCESS out the window and told people to "Surge the border". He then had Border Patrol act like a clearing house releasing thousands daily instead of patrolling the border. He had ICE basically stand down as we saw with Garcia's Tenn. traffic stop. He went even further shuttling immigrants across the country in the dead of the night by plane. Soon cities across the country were overwhelmed by immigrants. Millions of dollars that could have been spent on OUR needy citizens diverted to luxury hotel stays, food and board. All the while "There is no border crisis". El Paso was ready to declare an emergency before the 2022 midterms. They were told to shutup and then Biden had the streets and storm drainage systems cleared of migrants before his visit. 

Now Trump has the responsibility to undue Biden's wrong. He ran his campaign on that and he won. 

I don't expect any wall to stop those hellbent on getting in. It's more symbolic than effective. And there are all kinds of ways to get in. I expect IMMEDIATE DUE PROCESS for those caught entering illegaly and that process is deportation. And just because Biden aided and abetted their illegal entry months ago makes no difference. I expect a president who maintains a decent vigil on protecting our borders. 

There will be those with underlying circumstances like Garcia and another named Camargo. IMO, Trump has to stand tuff but in the end those entitled to Due Process because of some other court agreement will get it, but not without a fight. What Biden did was horrific. It will takes years to undue even half of it. And show of weakness now only makes it so much harder and the dem politicians know it. 

Are we at war? What's with all these state of national emergencies!!

In addition to being in a perpetual state of national emergency due to terrorist threats since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States is also under several decades-long national emergencies that President Joe Biden extended by executive order.

The orders were extended after the FBI and members of Congress have warned of increased terrorism threats in the last year and as the greatest number of illegal border crossers have been identified on the terrorist watch list under the Biden-Harris administration in U.S. history. (Self inflicted)

---On Sept. 18, Biden extended an executive order, “Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism,” for another year. It’s been extended since Sept. 23, 2001, when it was issued by former president George W. Bush.

---Biden also extended another executive order issued by former President Donald Trump on Sept. 9, 2019, “to strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing threat posed by international terrorism and to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency.”

---On Oct. 11, Biden extended another national emergency executive order related to Colombia-based narcotics trafficking. 

---On Oct. 11, Biden also extended a national emergency order related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

---This is after Biden in February extended a national emergency order related to Afghanistan after first issuing it on Feb. 11, 2022. It relates to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by” turmoil in Afghanistan after Biden relinquished control to the Taliban six months earlier.

Naw, I just Googled it and that was on a Canadian news site. Really I don't want Canadians as Americans, a whole different world.

As far as Alcatraz, would think they need to build from the ground up. That place way too old. Big $$$$. Like the concept though!

Speaking of concepts, that video of gang deportees getting their heads held down and shaved on the airport tarmack in El Salvador was worth it's weight in gold. The United States has caught at least 40 Tren de Argua gang members trying to escape to Canada via Detroit to Windsor since Trump took office. 

You can thank him later.

CBC; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-separation-rally-legislature-may-3-1.7526053

In the wake of the federal election, which saw another mandate for the Liberal party, Alberta introduced legislation that could make it easier for citizens to force referendums. Now, some Albertans advocating for separation from Canada are feeling emboldened. Paige Parsons has more from a weekend rally at the Legislature.

While Smith told reporters she won't presuppose what questions Albertans might bring to a ballot, the move would make it easier for citizens to call for a vote to secede from Canada.

The federal Liberals' election win Monday has also prompted some people in the province to demand an exit.

I have to agree Mugg. Nice to see Trump going all out and disassembling the propaganda machine. 

Deny, deflect, defend,.....over and over.

You are reasonably a smart person, smart enough to know there are no VISA holders who were sent to El Salvador yet you repeat that statement in this thread. And you know I'm pinning you down so you deflect.

We both know Garcia had/has no VISA. He had a judge ruling no deportation to El Salvador because rival gangs might hunt him down. That's not a VISA. How can that be, he's not MS13, just a Maryland dad. And everytime we send a gang member to prison can they claim rival gang members in that prison will hurt them? OK, no prison for you. Guess so since a trans activist who torched Tesla's received no prison due to "lack of affirming care".

Yes, I believe in due process and think eventually Garcia will get his. 

Find it interesting that people get prison for human trafficking illegals across our country yet Biden admin did it daily.

And if Pence had gone along with Trump?

No remaining in power. A recount, that's all.

"The whole problem is knowingly spreading false info to vulnerable people."

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Noticed you didn't quote me otherwise the name C-L-I-N-T-O-N would be there while you "deflected" to Bush. 

@wallstreetcappers

SIMPLE QUESTION; 

 WHO ARE THE VISA HOLDERS SENT TO EL SALVADOR? 

Wrong again; In the early 1990s, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton authorized the indefinite detention of Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base.

At its peak, the camp held more than 12,000 Haitians.

"Minority round up and deportation in mass without process." 

Exactly what Obama did, mass deportation without process. But now as a white President does it, it becomes racial. Talk about partisan patty cake. 

Who were the "VISA" holding people sent to El Salvador? I can find no record of any VISA holding people sent to El Salvador.

That expansion was announced back in March.

With income tax starting at 15% and additional taxation from provinces, employment insurance tax, etc. they should get something in return.

Minority round up and deportation in mass without process. 

Same thing Obama did, millions of times. 

He was stopped by Tennesse Highway Patrol for driving 10 mph over. The officer reported Garcia was having trouble understanding english, (faking it) the 8 others in the car could not speak any english. The officer asked the others to write their names on a piece of paper, they scribbled nonsense. Garcia had an expired temporary drivers license and said he was driving his boss' car (his "boss" was another illegal immigrant convicted of human smuggling three years prior). Tennessee Highway Patrol contacted the Biden Admin FBI who said let them go and Biden's ICE never followed up.