Are Mexican Trade and Immigration Really Unconnected?
The threat of punitive tariffs may not be such a bad idea
By Dan Cadman on June 4, 2019
When President Trump announced that he would institute a series of increasingly stiff trade tariffs to be levied against Mexico for its failure to do enough to impede illegal immigration to the United States, a number of voices – many of them conservatives – expressed dismay and concern, stating that there was no inherent linkage between trade and immigration, and that Trump's action could undermine the USMCA (U.S.-Mexico-Canada) trade agreement working its way through the congressional approval process.
Many free-trade Republicans in Congress have taken things a step further and are contemplating ways to limit or undo the president's authority to impose such penalizing tariffs.
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