Mexico's Congress Is Cooking Up Dozens Of Anti-Trump Measures

[DonViejo]

Senators are drafting up proposals — many of which were unthinkable several months ago — to protect Mexico from Trump’s aggressive border policies. But are they likely to pass?

posted on Mar. 10, 2017, at 2:51 p.m.

Karla Zabludovsky
BuzzFeed News Reporter

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Stop buying corn from the US. Levy a special tax on Americans living in Mexico. Reclaim nearly 210,000 acres of land from New Mexico and Arizona.

Lawmakers from across the political spectrum in Mexico are churning out a steady stream of proposals — some mild and others bordering on the absurd — to combat US President Donald Trump’s policies that directly affect Mexico’s economy or its immigrants.

“There’s a much more proactive dynamic (in Congress), and much less partisanship,” said Senator Armando Ríos Piter of the months since Trump, who has blamed Mexico for a litany of problems in the US, was elected.

Some of the measures are outwardly retaliatory, like the one urging the Mexican Foreign Ministry to draw up a list of US cities that support mass deportations and make it public so that potential tourists avoid them. Its architect, Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, was inspired by the travel warnings the State Department regularly emits about Mexican cities it considers dangerous, which he says cost the country millions of dollars in tourism revenue every year.

“Why do they want my money when it’s to travel around, but they don’t want my money when it’s to work?” asked Preciado rhetorically.

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[caroldansen]

1. What an interesting idea. They would have to get a new zip code.

[Solly Mack]

2. They actually should create that list of cities for tourists

list of US cities that support mass deportations and make it public so that potential tourists avoid them

It could save people from being hassled and possibly detained.