Trump on Ford’s Mexico Plant: ‘They’ll Have the Illegals Driving’ Across the Border

‘The next thing you know they have the illegals driving right across the border, take them in, drive them in; it’s cheaper that way, OK?’

TRUMP: “I’ll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I’ll take them back from China, from Japan, from Mexico, which is doing an incredible job. Their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. They’re taking tremendous industry. Look, Nabisco just announced they’re building a big plant. They’re leaving Chicago. I mean Nabisco — how American can you get? Nabisco is building a big plant in Mexico. Ford is building a $2.5 billion factory car plant — manufacturing plant for cars trucks and parts in Mexico.”

CUOMO: “How do you keep them?”

TRUMP: “You keep them by –“

CUOMO: “Because their labors cheap that’s why they go.”

TRUMP: “Well, first -- for one thing, you keep them by talking to them. But I would say, you keep them — if they go there, you know, they’ll make cars and they’ll sell them to the United States. No tax, no nothing. Just come right across the border. The next thing you know they have the illegals driving right across the border, take them in, drive them in, it’s cheaper that way, OK? I mean you have to talk to these people. You have to go and see the head of Ford. And you have to talk –“

CUOMO: “And they say the labors cheaper over there.”

TRUMP: “And you know what, we’ll say, ‘That’s fine the labors cheaper over there that’s good but, you know what, you’re going to have to pay a tax to get the cars back in. You got to have to pay a penalty.’ And if you a penalty on it, a tariff, or whatever you call it. And believe me, China’s doing it to us. China dumps all their stuff -- and I’m not complaining about that but you -- I have friends in the manufactures, they cannot get their product into China. So if they’re going to do it to us, we have to do it to them.”

CUOMO: “And they’ll say, ‘But then, my cars are going to cost more for your people.’”

TRUMP: “No, you know what? They’re going to make cars here and maybe a person will buy fewer cars over a course of a lifetime. Who cares? We have to have? We have to bring back our jobs, Chris. We have to do it. We have no choice.”

CUOMO: “I hear you but of course here comes how. You know, on this scenario, you just have Ford saying it’s cheaper over there. You’re going to punish the consumer.”

TRUMP: “I will tell you. You’re not punishing the consumer and you’re strengthening our country. We have $18 trillion. It’s going to be -- very soon it’s going to be $20 trillion that we owe.”

CUOMO: “True. Big day.”

TRUMP: “We have to start creating jobs. We have to start creating wealth. We all go to good schools. I go to grade schools, you go to grade -- you don’t have to be even a smart -- you don’t have to be the greatest student to know when Ford builds this massive plant to build cars and they bring them back into our country, no tax, we get nothing. We get nothing. They leave Michigan the other night. Unbelievable people. We have an unbelievable crowd. They leave Michigan. They take them out of Detroit and all over the place. And they go to Mexico. There’s no way that helps us. And you’re going to have to do something with the tariff at the border. If they’re going to make cars over there, if they’re going to leave the United States give great jobs for Mexico and not the United States, you know what, it’s fine. But they have to pay some kind of a price. We are getting killed on trade.”

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