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3 people · 5 quotes · 12 Mar 2025 to 5 May 2025
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Lutnick states 11,000 Mexican troops currently guard the border wall under Trump administration.
“11,000 Mexican troops are guarding the wall because they care about America, they care about America when Donald Trump's in the White House.”
Rowan argues US and Mexico should dominate economically for fifty years with US manufacturing and Mexico as workshop.
“The US and Mexico should be positioned to dominate the economic landscape for the next fifty years. US advanced manufacturing, Mexico the workshop, and so on and so on.”
Rowan reports Mexican business leader told him they support tariffs if needed to make Mexico great again.
“One of the leading families said to me, if it takes tariffs to make Mexico great again, so be it. Imagine an administration that stood up”
“US and Mexico together should be the driving economic force in the world for the next fifty years.”
Bessent cites estimates that cocaine trafficking through Mexico produces billions in annual cartel revenue.
“With Mexico as the primary destination for drugs leaving Ecuador, it is estimated that cocaine trafficking produces billions in revenue for cartels annually.”