Victor Davis Hanson: Mexico Is Ridiculing Us... Any Normal President Would Slap a Ten Percent Tax on Remittances to Mexico

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DAVIS HANSON: "Yeah, well, I think the present policy is unsustainable. And they may high-five that they got 10 million people in, they feel that that was valuable for constituency, but it’s blowing up in their face. Sean, if you saw that '60 Minute' interview with Obrador, the president of Mexico, when he just flat out said that we owe him $20 billion, we’ve got to stop the embargo of Venezuela, restore relations with Cuba and give amnesties to every Mexican national here, you can see where he’s coming from. He said he has absolute contempt for us. All we would have to do, any normal president would slap a 10% tax on the $60 billion of remittances that go to Mexico, they would declare the cartels a foreign terrorist organization, finish the wall, and maybe help out with the military on the border, and he would not talk like that. He would have more respect and they would be much nicer to us, the Mexican government, because they would have some deference to us. But now they are ridiculing us and they think it’s a joke. You see all of these people coming out of the woodwork that think the border is over for good and they can come and go as they please. They are essentially right, at least for the next nine or 10 months."