Trump has his wall and Mexico paid for it

This picture of Guatemalan Lety Perez on her knees begging, through her sobs, a Mexican National Guardsman to let her and her son continue on to the United States was taken by Reuters photographer Jose Luis Gonzales last Monday in Juarez on the northern border with the U.S.

Thanks to La Jornada

Since Gonzalez took the photo it has been widely circulated in Mexico and Latin America. The sentiment, as expressed by many including former Mexican President Calderon, is that Trump got his wall and the Mexicans paid for it.

The National Guard was created by newly elected Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) in January. The idea, which was mildly controversial, was to create a new military force to counter the corrupted branches the Mexican military.

In May Trump threatened the Mexicans with crushing economic sanctions unless they took action to stop the flow of Central American migrants. Rather than threaten the stability of the Mexican economy AMLO sent the newly minted National Guard to the frontier, as Spanish speakers call it.

The Guard has been cruelly effective. In the last 45 days they have rounded up 30,000 migrants, according to the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. Thus we find Señora Lety down on her knees begging and humiliated by none other than that vicious humiliator Donald Trump.

He has his wall and the Mexicans paid for it.

Tim
Central Minnesota Political

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