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Eugene

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Sat Sep 3, 2016, 04:10 PM Sep 2016

Mexican senator to propose anti-Trump expropriation law

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Fri Sep 2, 2016 5:44pm EDT

Mexican senator to propose anti-Trump expropriation law

By Dave Graham | MEXICO CITY

A Mexican senator is proposing legislation to empower the government to retaliate if a U.S. administration led by Donald Trump inflicts expropriations or economic losses on his country to make it pay for a border wall.

Republican presidential nominee Trump has vowed to have Mexico fund the planned wall to keep out illegal immigrants if he is elected, and threatened to fund it by blocking remittances sent home by Mexicans living in the United States.

Armando Rios Piter, an opposition senator for the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), will next week present the initiative he hopes will protect Mexicans, and highlight the risks of targeting them economically.

The plan offers a taste of the kind of tit-for-tat measures that could gain traction between the two heavily-integrated economies if Trump wins the presidency at the Nov. 8 election.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-mexico-idUSKCN1182PL
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Mexican senator to propose anti-Trump expropriation law (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2016 OP
Please! We need many taco trucks -- NOW! longship Sep 2016 #1

longship

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1. Please! We need many taco trucks -- NOW!
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 09:21 PM
Sep 2016

I am sure many US citizens would be happy to sponsor and fund such an endeavor.

Bring them! And post them on as many corners as you can. We will be forever in your debt.

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