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WaPo: Say, it looks like Trump won his tariff battle with Mexico after all

Ed MorrisseyPosted at 9:21 am on June 14, 2019

For a country that supposedly only agreed to the status quo, Mexico seems pretty busy making a lot of changes. Almost as soon as Donald Trump announced an agreement with Mexico to sharply reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the US border, the US media rushed to call it a defeat. Trump didn’t get anything Mexico hadn’t already agreed to do, and news outlets concluded that Trump caved rather than apply the tariffs.

If that’s the case, though, why is Mexico rushing to build a security apparatus in “weeks”? The Washington Post reports today that Mexico is feeling the pressure:

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/14/wapo-say-looks-like-trump-won-tariff-battle-mexico/