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A lot of us Americans remember learning about the tariff wars in history class that ended up in deciding fair trade was the better route. I fear we’re about to learn the same lesson again…\n\nAs far as the drug trade goes apparently the GOV doesn’t spend enough time on the internet because the cartels are no longer just in Mexico they’re in the USA and in Canada. They have learned the Canadian border is a lot easier to cross and they can get into BC pretty easily due to relaxed immigration policies In Canada.. they probably don’t actually know where the drugs are coming from or where they’re being manufactured entirely. The cartels are probably a step ahead of them at the moment. \n\nI can’t believe the auto industry lobbyists were not instructed to go full send on the detriment of the opposite position taken from the NAFTA. The only thing I can see is auto sales are slumping and maybe they can blame this on the tariff policy for massive restructuring. \n\nI kind of understand wanting to negotiate with Mexico because they probably buy less American goods than Americans buy Mexican goods (drugs excluding) but I’m guessing Canada is a better customer of American goods than Americans are of Canadian goods. Why would you want to upset a good partner, customer, and ally!? It’s Beyond my comprehension…. If Trump was really smart he’d convince some factories to actually invest in Mexico with cooperation from the Mexican government investing in efficient transportation from the manufacturing sectors to the American border and the coasts for distribution. This would likely really help their economy and change the whole dynamic of all the things Trump has issues with. Fix it at the source not try to treat the symptoms.

All this because the US cannot get it's fellow citizens and most vulnerable people the help they need with their addictions. Let's remember that the US has the biggest demand for illegal drugs in the world. Republicans love starting wars and not solving the root causes of problems. They never learn from their mistakes.

Trump starting a trade war is not going to help him or the American people. Things are only going to get more expensive for the Americans

Could Western Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan all get together and have a talk with Uncle Sam? I think we need an intervention at this point. Help!

how dead do your brain cells have to be to think that doing something like this will immediately solve the problem. If there wasn't a demand there wouldnt be anyone trying to fill the demand. Purdue Pharma also helped create the demand by pushing highly addictive opioid drugs and lying about it to people. Those people they hooked didn't suddenly disappear. It created a chain that we are still seeing today. They would rather put a bandage on the bleeding wound than cough up the money and the actual will to start solving the crisis that is driving people into drugs. Like lack of affordable housing, once people lose that safety and are on the street drugs end up providing a relief from their situation. Lack of any meaningful mental health care, or any health care at all. There are underlying things that aren't getting solved, people will always find new ways to find or make drugs whether those drugs come from other countries or just created inside the US.

So all the foreigners flood canada get a bunch of free money and free help. Raising taxes for citizen who have lived here all there lives then when those taxes get too much for them and the free help theyre given by the government. They just dip and leave all the debt on actually canadians yep canada is doomed and the govermment let THE DOOM in willingly.

We need to stop bringing Somolians over to our country, giving them housing, food, and medical assistance when we Americans can't even get help from our own states because everything is already taken up from all these disgusting, disrespectful refugies!!!

What’s wrong with them, can’t they be aggressive with their own government. They would probably get a better outcome than what they’re doing now. \nWhy can’t they stand up and do this to their on country instead of over populating our country. They need to fix their on country. We are tired of being second in our on country. We have people right now especially our Veterans that are on the streets as I am typing this that desperately need help. So I am sorry if I don’t feel anything for you guys. You all want your cake and eat it to. You people want a free ride and that train has left already.

If this ungodly way keeps happening, we,ll have no choice but to use force , if that's the way they want it , that's the way it will be..\n Hate it's came this far , but if that's the only way ,then getem, get them all out... They knew they were breaking the law when this first started , blame the biden administration for it and just get out and sue the right people for it... Don't take it soldiers ,workers, or anyone who is trying to help...

Why do a piece like this when it is clearly obvious when you interview actual servicemembers past and present about the importance of military camaraderie and mental fitness. If somebody is confused about their sex or gender, that is a mental illness which excludes such people from serving in the United States military branches. CNN gets it wrong, on the wrong side of history even after such extreme ratings losses and audience. Kaitlin is not helping AT ALL.

There president in Mexico is not doing anything for her people. She focus drugs not helping her people in Mexico . It's not fair for America is doing a lot for people in Mexico . These people in Mexico are afraid in there own country. It's very sad. Their president in Mexico is not doing anything. Don't get mad at U.S.A.

I sometimes have to chase staff to get help and attention when i am shopping... I feel neglected lol

Are we really safe in this country where people of criminal background are filing asylum and after two weeks they are getting our hard earned money 1200 dollars as a asylum help they don’t even pay college fees

Im all for transgender millitary nan. Most countries kill transgender and gay people. We cant help afew while putting most other soldiers in danger. They are not meeting medical standards, because ypu healthcare costs are astronomical and will only get worse as you age. Americans voted and choose not to pay for unnecessary, non lifethreatening surgeries, and you will eventually die from having the surgery. The medications that are required to take will kill you, but not before the multiple serious health issues that ypu will endure. The tax payers cannot continue to pay for ypur medically unnecessary desires. You have been casterated. Please leave the millitary, because that is absolutely insane!

It’s perverted and disgusting. I hope you all get the help you need but you don’t belong in the military

Build the wall I’m sure we can get volunteers to help do it.

ATTEMPTED ?????? you are seeing this right now cause they just can't help themselves using these people as pawns to make Trumps policies look bad. Hoping for some front page pictures of poor little Migrants getting pepper sprayed.. when they are trying to enter illegally ! It's disgusting. When are you left braindead fools gonna wake up and see what they are doing?

I really wish the global community would get involved in helping these suffering countries. These people are desperately trying to achieve any kind of livable conditions.

I blame all this on the Biden administration who PURPOSELY allowed masses of people from ALL OVER THE WORLD to enter this country illegally in the thousands per day with NO PLAN causing more economic hardship on already economically struggling Americans who many were forced to become homeless, loose their vehicles, loose their job, unable to pay rent or get assistance, and much more and when Americans discovered that people illegally entering the country were being given a \nSpecial debit card in the thousands $$$\nWere being given 2 yrs free rent\nWere being put ahead of those that were legally trying to get a green card after already waiting yrs to get in\nWere being given food stamps and other forms of help $$$$\nWere being given a FREE VEHICLE\nwere placed in jobs along with the federal monies \nWas something painfully and became wrongfully able for suffering Americans and Veterans to accept and voted for TRUMP!\nWhy? Democrats who were placing non Americans before AMERICANS and it became unacceptable!\nI’d like to see another country do what the Biden administration so illegally done!\nSorry ???\nCharity begins at home! We are voting you heartless Democrats out!

On every corner is a homeless Citizen or a Veteran sleeping on the sidewalk unable to get any sort of assistance, housing is scarce and rent is high, while many working Americans can barely afford to put food on the table, keep the lights on and pay rent?? \nThis is NOT ok. We need to ramp up the border security. What makes them think they can avoid deportation long term?? What makes them think they deserve assistance while our own people are suffering and dying on the streets? Why should we care about immigrants when we can't help our own people??! Make it make sense!! I didn't agree to give illegals a free ride while working my a$$ off while the threat of homelessness or extreme poverty hanging over my head every effing day!!!

If you have watched for the past 4 years this is how they did it. They let all the thugs and military style men and the prisoners from other country's in . Not to many family's came usual singles in groups dragging children through the gap.few women they rated and tortured the girls and little boys. Now these people are coming in massive amounts. 1 million was on back log already approved just had to get an appointment date. It was cut off from these ppl and they are mad because they gave up or sold everything based on Joe Biden And Kamala lies and treason selling out our country to the UN. The UN gave these ppl thousands to come .single men were told they were going to be soldiers when they got here. But UN stop reloading their visa cards with so much money. It gives on and on. Trust they will continue to take over. American best wake up and stop letting the communist Marxist Democrat devide us. Jeffries said today they will take the fight to the street. AOCdid too last week in a post on X. Do you think any of those rich democrats going to help.DjT gave 24 million to help hurricane victims on the coast. Nancy P has 300million do you think she would give 25.million to Cali. Heck no. Her and Newsom ripped billions off. Only Jesus Christ ?.

Someone get Kamala down there to help out

Their just bogarding their way into this country. Other countries don't put up with this invasion. All the homeless Americans not getting any help. ?

My friend is in mortgages and their firm uncovered a massive fraud scheme with a large Venezuelan group producing fraudulent accounts and documents to purchases homes. While most Americans can’t get one! They aren’t just coming for “help”

You could tell these all a bunch of cutthroat people who don’t want to stay in their own country cause none of them get along with each other to help build things back up such a shame?

Americans need help too get yourselves and your own country back together you've used all of our resources

And we are offering prison sentences to people helping immigrants to get here ????! Who's paying the £50000 a year to house them???? We bloody are!!!!!!! The government are just thick as s... deport deport deport!!!!!

Need to send more troops, these folks think we can support them and we can’t , we have homeless veterans living on our streets, not only other homeless families because of severe weather damage trying desperately to get help, sorry but AMERICANS first !

people still don't get it, they demand public housing and government help, when that's exactly why there's an issue. Too many regulations, permits, costs, licensing, carbon tax, unions etc. to build... we have a marxism problem, not a free market problem

This is really sad,hope those people get help somehow,maybe in their own country ?

They do not belong in the military. Hopefully the Trump Administration can undo the terrible destruction the Biden admin. Has done to the military. They have destroyed everything else. Get these people the help they need .

It would be very helpful if we could get a numerical report on this. Just how many trans folks are in the various branches of the Service? \nPerhaps, as is the usual Trump playbook, we are making much ado about not a whole lot?????

He is a man pretending to be a woman. Sorry...that is a mental problem. I honor his service. I should get special help ...but should not be allowed to serve in combat.

Your average soldier is not going to respect a leader or want to follow a leader who used to be a man and is now a woman and Vice, versa! I agree with Trump and Crenshaw even though I don't Crenshaw. There is no room in the military for this BS. I served 10 years and this BS is nothing more than a huge distraction. You have people who were going in just to get the operations. They spend 4 years in the military changing gender on tax payers dime. Out of the whole 4 years they may be deployable for about 6 months and that ain't all at the same time. When I was in this stuff was not an issue! They were not allowed to join and neither were gays.\n\n Think about it everyone is so bent out of shape over sexual assault well if you take a couple of gay guys and put them in an infantry unit they are going to look at all those men the same way a straight guy would look at all the girls if he was dropped off in an all girls collage. Nothing but problems and issues the military doesn't need!!! Seen it first hand back then when it was not allowed. Incase no one noticed military recruitment is down to dangerous levels! Doesn't anyone wonder why??? This post is why. No one wants to be part of a wishy washy military. It's to easy to get hurt or killed when things are running normal! Throw all the gay and trans BS in there and it just F**ks up everything!\n\nSo for 4 years they are almost always on lite duty, they are getting paid and getting the operations then at the end of their enlistment they walk out of the military the opposite sex they came in with and the American taxpayer is hundreds of thousands of dollars down for every one of these fools!!! This is what the democrats did!!! Join the Army and change your sex on us!!!\nNo place in the military for these fools. I feel that anyone who wants to change their sex is mentally ill!!! I have no desire to change into a woman and if I did I would think something was wrong with me and go get help!!!

This is medically insane, Trump is choosing things with no scientific proof. In fact, science contradicts him. And many prefer to do harm to this people because of their beliefs, to people who are helping them by risking their lives for the country, and your life is a thing you never ever get back…

Thanks for your service. Please get the help you need. Thank you!

The one thing i agree strongly with this guy even tho he is full of empty promises might get more done with congress on his side this time but too many immigrant in our country too my city is unrecognisable and i am serious its getten even a bit intimiditing tje hatred undercurrent in our city these foreigners hate our guts and its our country and we are called the hater its our help and support that is less and less our nhs overrun we sont get the services we arw due because there are too many immigrants in our countries it SIMPLE do not take ordainary people as idiots and produce all this flannel about being humanist charity begjns at home these are prinicipals our grandparents installed in us doesnt me we are unkinnd or wouldnt help anyone but tjeres a limit i feel intimidated daily by foreingers and im a hater for such remarks aye right who are you politicians kidding no wonder trump has such a following even tho i am not a fan of the man but he is bang on here

So let me get this straight you've destroyed your own country's economy but now you want to come here and you are all supposed to do these great big wonderful things??? Yeah right the only thing that these people will do is work on ruining our economy next and if you haven't noticed lately our economy is bad enough without letting these clowns have a crack at it. Everybody down the list all of them that voted for Biden are responsible for this mess Joe Biden and all of his followers should be ashamed of themselves which is why he wanted to pardon all of his people because personally if I was the president everyone that helped that man do this would be held accountable

They think they'll get help here.?\nOur own citizens are starving and losing housing and employment..\nI'll be selling strudel to German tourists at the beach soon.

They'll get off the plane, and go right back to the US and try again. \nIn fact. MORE will now attempt it seeing that if they get caught, they'll simply get a free plane ride home. \nHell, if I was one of them, I'd be doing it as well!! This is good news for illegals. \nAnd just look at the number of people in here supporting this ridiculous strategy from Trump. \nLol, you idiots are dumb as dirt to think this will help stop illegals coming into your country. \nIt's going to INCREASE it. And it will cost you millions every year without end. \nLive and never learn.

I get it, they're trying to escape the government corruption and drug cartels. But, leaving the country isn't going to fix anything. Instead, it's going to put a strain on America's already over budgeted social services. We can barely help people that are already here. Once the cross, theyll go on welfare immediately. TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN FIRST!

As far as healthcare goes the US is a 3rd world country, where, only the rich can afford to see a doctor, or visit a hospital. You have thousands of people living on the streets, with NO help, or concern. America is no different than Bangladesh, or Ethiopia, for having a part of your society living on the street, begging for food, or money. When the US starts caring for ALL of it's people, regardless of skin color, race, or background, and give them a hand up, like most CIVILIZED societies do, you'll always be a 3rd world country. America had a chance to elect a president that would have turned America into a first world power with Kamala Harris, and Tim Waiz, but, you blew it, you re-elected the worst president, EVER with trump, who will finish the job of ruining America, and make it totally poverty-stricken. WOW, you'd think Americans are all millionaires, the way they turned out, for trump! Did NONE of you listen to what Kamala was offering? Because this half blind, mostly deaf old Canadian heard every word, her promise of a bottom-up building more opportunities for poor, and working class families, new taxes on the rich, and corporations to pay for it. Kamala offered a GREAT deal, a more secure future, more OPPORTUNITIES,,,,, And you all turned her down. You voted for a stalker and rapist, a traitor, and criminal, with multiple convictions, a liar, and cheat, trump. I guess you get what you deserve.

To hell with Venezuela and all its ppl, get out of our country. we dont want you here. We have our own ppl to worry about, we can't help you.

Trumps mental illness is getting dangerous...please someone get him dome help before this gets our country and its people in jeopardy..please look at what he is doing is not normal....

These people want to fight to get into our country, why dont they fight to fix their own. Our founders fought and many died to get our freedom. Many have fought an died on forgein battlefields to protect our way of life since then. You just dont get that by crossing the board after the work has been done. They need to remove the corruption and the Cartels and take back their country. If they were a stable neighbor the US would help them and partner with them for success.

can someone tell me this is not invasion? please help me understand. If a group of people trying to jump the fence to get into your house, would you stop them?

The mob is more than the police stopping them. Hope police can get more help

You’re so slow. By the time you posted this the Columbia president caved. Absolutely a beast moment by president Trump . Let me see the news story from cnn talking how amazing this reversal was. president Trump is changing things and getting this national moving . If you continue to bash him and not reporting honestly on the amazing turn around president Trump has preformed and his approval rating your lost. CNN will never recover as a news outlet. Moving to streaming won’t even help you.

President trump i was your fan,and im still your fan now and u will succeed its my own personal beliefs on you definitely will succeed, unfortunately not everyone going to fell the same good feelings for you, you cant win over every single human beings on this entire world,you can try harder anyway you can but i do apologise every body cant love you,good way not wad way why? You have give everything to others to make them smile? You are totally right about everything i do love your mentality keep giving, keep giving why? not keep receiving im sorry i changed the system completely i do apologise its new system's no moore extra help others every body is dead may true god be your side i know you believe in you own god jegus Christ its beautiful to believe in great lord jegus Christ easy rules, welcome to United States of America difficult to get there

Well when the American people get scammed with this kind of president we thank the rest of the world for helping out the Americans! We couldn't do it without you. Thank you South America for your help!