President Donald Trump is claiming a big win with Mexico after the country agreed to send 6,000 troops to block migrants from crossing through. In return, Trump dropped his tariff threat. Ana Quintana of The Heritage Foundation joins us to analyze what happened. Read the interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast:

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Kate Trinko: In an interview Monday, President Donald Trump made it clear that he thinks he just pulled off a major win through his negotiations with Mexico. Here’s what he told CNBC.

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Donald Trump: But I just want to say to the United States Chamber of Commerce, if we didn’t have tariffs, we wouldn’t have made a deal with Mexico. We got everything we wanted and we’re going to be a great partner to Mexico now because now they respect us.

They didn’t even respect us. They couldn’t believe how stupid we were with what’s going on, where somebody comes in from Mexico and just walks right into our country and we’re powerless to do anything, whereas they have very strong immigration laws.

They don’t have to take anybody. They can say, “Out, you get.” So we’re going to be essentially using, to a large extent, the very powerful immigration laws of Mexico.

And Mexico wants to do a good job. They’re moving 6,000 soldiers to their southern border. Do you think they agreed to do that before? And they’re paying them.

They’re moving 6,000 soldiers to their southern border. That means that people from Guatemala, the people from Honduras and El Salvador, in theory, if they do it right, they’re not going to be able to get through.

Nobody’s going to be able to get through. And then they’re also going to protect our southern border.

Trinko: Joining us to discuss the president’s negotiations is Ana Quintana. She’s the senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation who focuses on Latin America and the Western Hemisphere.

Ana, what do you think? Is Trump right that this was a major win for him?

Ana Quintana: I think this new deal with Mexico is a huge deal. It’s a pretty big win.

I think it’s significant what the Mexicans have agreed to do. Time will tell if they actually fulfill their obligations and they actually have the capacity to do so.

But they actually now have a timeline by which they need to deliver. They have measurable outcomes they need to achieve. So yeah, this is big.

Trinko: And for our listeners who haven’t been following this as closely, what exactly did Mexico agree to?

Quintana: Mexico has agreed to strengthen their southern border, their border specifically with Guatemala. It’s about a 600-mile-long border. They’ve agreed to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops.

This National Guard is a new unit that was created by the current president back in February. And the National Guard is a fusion of army, navy, and federal law enforcement. So it’s a mixed bag of Mexican security officials.

They will now be strengthening their southern border to act as a deterrent against Central Americans crossing the border.

Mexico has also agreed to deepen collaboration with the United States on countering trafficking networks inside of Mexico, specifically the trafficking networks and drug cartels that are involved with the moving of migrants and human smuggling and human trafficking.

I think that’s an incredibly important point because that allows the U.S. to increase oversight, increase presence within Mexico and within Mexican government institutions to specifically look at which cartels are doing this dirty work and how better to map this threat not just in Mexico but also inside the United States and in Central America.

A few weeks ago, also, there was an agreement to send a few hundred CBP officials to Guatemala. So that’s another significant uptick in presence.

What else has been agreed upon? Let me see because there was just so much that was done in this new agreement.

Also, the U.S. and Mexico have agreed that if the numbers do not significantly decline within the next 90 days, both countries will meet again to revisit this agreement and see what can be fixed.

But more broadly than that, I think you now see the Mexican government looking at the issue of illegal immigration from Central America as a national security challenge. Before, they would view it as a humanitarian issue.

I think the shift in paradigm, the shift in perspective will now enable and strengthen Mexico’s resolve to really deal with this.

Daniel Davis: So a week ago the Mexico’s foreign minister was in D.C. saying, “We’re not going to obey your commands. We’re not going to fold.”

Basically, they complied after it was clear that Trump was going to drop these tariffs.

What do you think made them do that? It kind of makes them look weak, but clearly, they thought it was worth it for them.

Quintana: I don’t necessarily think that [Marcelo] Ebrard, that the foreign minister said that. …

With the U.S. media with the way that things are being translated—I think what Ebrard was saying was that the tariffs were being put on the table and that they wanted to come to negotiate in peace. And this is Mexican typical diplomatic speak, right?

If you look at this from a Google translate perspective, which is what The New York Times and others have been doing, you’re going to misinterpret, you’re going to lose a lot of meaning rather.

So Ebrard and other Cabinet-level officials from Mexico spent all of last week inside of the United States negotiating. It was a high-level summit.

But I don’t necessarily think that it makes the Mexicans look weak. I think is that it finally gets Mexico to highlight a few inconsistencies and hypocrisy within their own policy.

Central American migration through Mexico, even though it ends up in the United States, Mexico by not deterring it is facilitating it and they’re creating problems for the United States. So if they actually want to be a partner to America, they need to stop it.

Trinko: And do you think the threat of tariffs is what drove this agreement to come into place?

Quintana: I’m not a fan of using tariffs. … The use of tariffs, the use of an economic penalty for a noneconomic issue, particularly with a country like Mexico that is a partner country, it’s unwise long term. But I think something pretty significant was achieved.

And I got to give the president credit on the fact that he was able to pull this off because, frankly, I don’t see many other tools in the U.S.’ toolkit that really could have achieved this.

Davis: The New York Times reported over the weekend:

The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations.

President Trump took issue with that and he tweeted:

When will the Failing New York Times admit that their front page story on the New Mexico deal at the Border is a FRAUD and nothing more than a badly reported ‘hit job’ on me, since that has been going on since the first day I announced for the presidency!

So, Ana, is The New York Times correct that Mexico had already committed to do this and that Trump is just claiming victory?

Quintana: No. … One point that I forgot to bring up was the expansion of the “Remain in Mexico” policy where Mexico will agree to hold more Central Americans that are applying for asylum in the United States.

So there are small elements of previous agreements that are now a component of this new agreement.

But again, this goes back to The New York Times not having people on their staff that speak Spanish because within that article there are many factual errors. I read the article and I was like, “Oh, my God, this is completely wrong.”

You just watched the foreign minister’s press conference directly after the agreement was announced and you see that there are massive, massive childlike problems here. There’s just blatant lies.

And so no. I think this is a significant escalation, this is an exponential increase in cooperation between both countries and Mexico’s willingness to do more.

Trinko: So Mexico, they came out on Monday, they’re planning to evaluate whether this worked. You mentioned 90 days, they also said 45 days. Do you think this new agreement will actually deter people from coming to the border? What do you think?

Quintana: Yes. … If you are part of a trafficking network, it’s your job to bring people across the border illegally from Mexico to Guatemala, right?

This border is 500 miles, almost 600 miles of jungle. There’s barely any military or government presence there. There’s barely any presence there from the Guatemalan side and now you hear there’s going to be 6,000 new troops there at the border making sure people don’t cross.

That’s a deterrent factor, right?

If you now know that the Mexican government and the U.S. are increasing collaboration and mapping out these trafficking networks and undercutting their illicit financing mechanisms and undercutting so many of the other kind of factors and conditions that allow these people to thrive. Yeah, this is going to do a lot.

Are we going to see an immediate decline? I think it’s going to take some time. I don’t necessarily think 45 days is a sufficient window. I think 90 days is better because it gives you about three months to really see things being actionable and put into place.

But yeah, I think this is going to lead in the right direction.

Davis: And how do you think this will affect the U.S.-Mexico relationship in the longer term? Obviously, we want to see them as an ally. They’re our neighbor. And if you have to deal with the country being on your border forever you want to have good relations.

Obviously, this kind of drastic measure, the negotiation style, you don’t want it to be normative long term because that could be destructive.

So how do you see this fitting into a longer term relationship with Mexico?

Quintana: That’s a really good question. I think I agree with you to some degree that yes, you don’t necessarily want to make this commonplace. You don’t necessarily want it to be that bilateral relations are governed by threat of whatever to achieve X goal. I think now is a good opportunity.

And I think this also is not the defining factor of the bilateral relationship, nor is it the defining factor of the bilateral relationship throughout the Trump administration.

Throughout these past two years there’ve actually been a lot of positive diplomatic engagement. A lot of positive economic engagement as well.

The fact that USMCA was finally agreed upon, the Mexican Congress is about to pass it next week. That’s what they’ve declared to do.

I think there’s a lot of positives that are happening behind the scenes, which, thankfully, allow for, at times, some tough love to be implemented.

I just do hope that let’s say if the 90-day period does come up and there are some shortfalls on the Mexican side, that it’s not going to be for a lack of willingness from the Mexicans.

And I hope that there is a bit more of understanding from the U.S. government because we can’t just keep on being a hammer at this. Because you’re right, we share a 2,000-mile-long border. We are partners, we’re trade allies. There’s just such a deep relationship there.

Trinko: You recently went to El Salvador, which, of course, is one of the countries where migrants are coming from and coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Besides the fact that you heard a gunfight outside your hotel, which you detailed to us right before we recorded, did you get any insights into the migrant crisis from your time in El Salvador?

Quintana: Yeah. It wasn’t so much a gunfight because the gunfire was only going one direction. But who knows what happened there, but whatever. …

It’s really difficult to explain just how economically, how poor the economic conditions in that country are and just how dire the circumstances are.

I was talking to one person and we were talking about the issue of just clean water and how there are so many villages throughout El Salvador where people are literally drinking water where fertilizer and other companies and other waste treatment facilities are literally dumping that water into wells. And that’s the water that people are drinking.

And now, there’re new generations of villages of people with awful kidney issues. … These are people. And then there’s no medical care.

There are children who have died on the way to hospitals because there’s simply no bridges to join two cities or to connect two cities together.

And there are no chances at better improving yourself economically because the opportunities simply are not there. And that’s not even factoring in the violence and the insecurity crisis.

… The situation is quite dire and I think there’s a new possibility now in El Salvador for the conditions to actually improve.

Their new president was recently elected. I mean you guys, Daniel, you were able to interview him recently and I think he gave his perspective on what he wants to do in the country to help relieve the migration crisis. To help improve the economic conditions and security conditions in the country.

One of the first areas that he’s tackling is really government corruption. He, so far, I think, is saving the country about $5 million a year in firing employees who were just employees because they were relatives of the previous administration.

There are awful amounts of nepotism going on in that country. … I think it’s really hard to even describe how bad the situation is.

Trinko: Well, thank you so much for joining us, Ana. Definitely some sad food for thought with the description of the wells in El Salvador. I didn’t realize it was that bad. Thank you for joining us and sharing.

Quintana: No, thanks for having me.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/11/trumps-negotiations-with-mexico-delivered-a-big-win/

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Authorities blocked a new caravan of Central American migrants Wednesday after they entered Mexico bound for the United States, as the government scrambled to dodge President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over undocumented immigration.

Soldiers and police forced hundreds of migrants in the group — which was mostly from Honduras — to a halt in the southern town of Metapa de Dominguez, about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the Mexican-Guatemalan border.

The National Migration Institute (INM) said about 420 migrants had been stopped and taken to a detention center by bus.

But many others may have fled: state police initially estimated the caravan had some 1,200 people.

The incident came as a high-level delegation led by Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard held talks in Washington with US officials in a bid to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs.

Trump is threatening to apply tariffs of five percent on all Mexican exports starting Monday, and rising incrementally to 25 percent by October.

That has triggered panic in Mexico, which sends 80 percent of its exports to the United States.

The talks, which broke off Wednesday without agreement, are due to resume Thursday. Trump tweeted that if no deal is reached then, the tariffs will come into force Monday.

The INM said that where applicable, the detained migrants would be “assisted to return to their countries of origin” — its term for deportation.

Migrant rights activists traveling with the group told AFP more than 100 members of Mexico’s newly created National Guard took part in the operation.

Tension flared as officers brandishing anti-riot shields blocked the migrants’ path, the activists said. But despite a shoving match, the authorities managed to force the caravan to a stop.

Separately, migrant rights group People Without Borders (Pueblo Sin Fronteras) said two of its members had also been detained: its leader, Irineo Mujica, in the northern state of Sonora, and another activist, Cristobal Sanchez, in Mexico City.

Mexico has deployed the National Guard to the southern border and stepped up detentions and deportations in a bid to slow the flow of migrants crossing its territory toward the United States.

But migrant detentions at the US-Mexican border still increased by 32 percent month-on-month in May, to more than 144,000, according to US Customs and Border Protection.

Tension has soared between the US and Mexico over the surge of migrants in recent months — mainly Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-7110087/Mexico-blocks-caravan-1-200-Central-American-migrants.html

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President Donald Trump’s decision to drop plans for new tariffs on Mexico is rare good news for a world economy that’s being buffeted by escalating US-China trade tensions.

President Donald Trump’s decision to drop plans for new tariffs on Mexico is rare good news for a world economy that’s being buffeted by escalating US-China trade tensions.

Central bank chiefs and finance ministers gathered in Fukuoka, Japan, for meetings of the Group of 20 were quick to welcome Trump’s move, describing it as a clear removal of one of the biggest worries facing companies and investors.

“It’s good that the 5% tariffs won’t now be imposed, and that’s not just good for the US and Mexico, it’s also beneficial for the global economy, “Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda told reporters.

Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati described the news as “very plus plus” and said it may signal that the U.S. and China can also reach an agreement in their trade dispute.” We do hope this recognition is going to create a more reasonable policy direction,” Indrawati said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Broader concerns over rising protectionism and the U.S.-China trade war is dominating discussions here, with officials warning the dispute continues to hurt growth.  The G-20 communique is still under discussion, with Japanese officials seeking to limit debate over trade in order to keep thing moving, according to a person familiar with the matter.  The host nation is aiming to find consensus on the final wording>

Leading into the meetings, the World Bank cut its 2019 global growth forecast, citing a slowdown in trade growth to the weakest since the financial crisis a decade ago and a drop in global investment. The bank forecast that the world economy will expand 2.6% this year, compared with a projection of 2.9% it made in January.

“There’s no doubt that the escalating trade tensions have weighed on the global economic outlook,” Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Bloomberg Television Friday. On a panel on Saturday in Fukuoka, China’s Finance Minister Liu Kun warned the world economy is weak.

Still, in a sign that multilateralism is not completely out of fashion, policy makers at the meetings called for continued progress on finding ways to limit international tax evasion.Cooperation “stands out as a case study on how multilateralism can be effective in the face of today’s challenges,” India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on a panel Saturday. “Multi-laterally is the way to go,” Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, said on the same panel.

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Mexican negotiators are offering to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to its border with Guatemala and enact sweeping changes to its asylum laws, moves that are expected to prevent a significant number of Central Americans from illegally entering the U.S., The Washington Post reported Thursday.

President Donald Trump set a June 10 deadline for the Mexican government to demonstrate it would do more to stem illegal immigration from its country, or else face a 5% tariff on all its goods. The threat sparked immediate negotiations between U.S. and Mexican delegations in Washington, D.C. — which are expected to continue for the rest of the week.

Mexico, according to two officials who spoke with The Post, agreed to send up to 6,000 National Guard troops to its southern border with Guatemala, a major chokepoint for Central American migrants in their northbound journey to the U.S. That move is expected to immediately yield results in squashing the number of illegal immigrants.

Additionally, Mexican negotiators are prepared to revamp their asylum rules in the region. Under the proposal, Central Americans seeking asylum would have to remain in the first country they entered after leaving their homeland. For example, Guatemalans seeking asylum in the U.S. would be deported to Mexico, the first country they crossed in their U.S.-bound journey. The U.S. would be able to deport El Salvadorian and Honduran applicants to Guatemala — the first country they presumably crossed.

However, officials involved in the talks note that negotiations are still underway and that Trump could very well deem the final agreement insufficient.

Negotiations began this week. The tariffs, Trump warned, would increase by increments of 5 percentage points every month, reaching a potential maximum of 25% by October.

Central American migrants, moving in a caravan through Juchitan, Oaxaca are pictured atop a train known as “The Beast” while continuing their journey toward the United States, in Mexico on April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Jose de Jesus Cortes

“Immigration discussions at the White House with representatives of Mexico have ended for the day. Progress is being made, but not nearly enough!” the president tweeted Wednesday, repeating his long-held beliefs that the Mexican government does little to stop illegal migrants from reaching the U.S. border.

Should Trump accept the terms of the deal, he would likely tout the concessions as a major victory. An agreement would also be a sigh of relief for Republicans in Congress, many of whom publicly expressed their reservations about entering a tariff war with the country’s third largest trading partner. (RELATED: Border Patrol Reports A Surge Of Africans Trying To Illegally Cross The Border)

Details of the negotiations come as the illegal immigration crisis appears to be only getting worse. Over 130,000 illegal migrants were apprehended on the southern border in May, the third consecutive month where encounters topped 100,000 and the largest rate of migrant arrests in over a decade.

Border Patrol apprehended over half a million illegal migrants this fiscal year.

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Source: https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/06/mexico-makes-immigration-concessions/

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In talks with the Trump administration — which has vowed to impose tariffs on Mexican goods starting Monday unless the Mexican government moves swiftly to reduce the number of Central American migrants trekking across its interior to reach the U.S. — representatives of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration said they were willing to take bold action, a U.S. official told CBS News.

In an apparent response to a report from Bloomberg News that the White House was considering delaying the tariffs, press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that the U.S. “position has not changed and we are still moving forward with tariffs at this time.”

The U.S. official said Mexican diplomats told their American counterparts during the first round of talks on Wednesday that they would be willing to station 6,000 National Guard troops along the Mexico-Guatemala border, where migrants from the so-called Northern Triangle, a region comprised of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, cross to begin their journey through Mexico.

The U.S. official also told CBS News that Mexican officials said Thursday they could come to an agreement about changing asylum policies to curtail migration patterns and accommodate proposed changes to the asylum system in the U.S.

According to a White House official, the Trump administration is considering a policy that would make migrants eligible for asylum only if the U.S. is the first country they enter from their home country. For instance, a Guatemalan migrant who travels across Mexico to reach the U.S. would not be eligible for asylum.

Further details about the ongoing negotiations — which are occurring while President Trump is traveling in Europe — were not forthcoming.

Publicly, Mexican officials stressed that no concrete deal had been brokered Thursday.

“The conversations continue advancing. We are exploring options to meet the growing number of undocumented migrants that cross Mexico. No agreement has yet been reached but we continue negotiating,” Mexican Foreign Ministry spokesman Roberto Velasco Álvarez told CBS News.

On Twitter, Velasco Álvarez said U.S. officials were focused on mitigating migration, while the Mexican government was focused on “development,” presumably referring to aid for the Northern Triangle to address the rampant poverty, violence and political corruption in the region.

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Mexican negotiators are offering to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to its border with Guatemala and enact sweeping changes to its asylum laws, moves that are expected to prevent a significant number of Central Americans from illegally entering the U.S., The Washington Post reported Thursday.

President Donald Trump set a June 10 deadline for the Mexican government to demonstrate it would do more to stem illegal immigration from its country, or else face a 5% tariff on all its goods. The threat sparked immediate negotiations between U.S. and Mexican delegations in Washington, D.C. — which are expected to continue for the rest of the week.

Mexico, according to two officials who spoke with The Post, agreed to send up to 6,000 National Guard troops to its southern border with Guatemala, a major chokepoint for Central American migrants in their northbound journey to the U.S. That move is expected to immediately yield results in squashing the number of illegal immigrants.

Additionally, Mexican negotiators are prepared to revamp their asylum rules in the region. Under the proposal, Central Americans seeking asylum would have to remain in the first country they entered after leaving their homeland. For example, Guatemalans seeking asylum in the U.S. would be deported to Mexico, the first country they crossed in their U.S.-bound journey. The U.S. would be able to deport El Salvadorian and Honduran applicants to Guatemala — the first country they presumably crossed.

However, officials involved in the talks note that negotiations are still underway and that Trump could very well deem the final agreement insufficient.

Negotiations began this week. The tariffs, Trump warned, would increase by increments of 5 percentage points every month, reaching a potential maximum of 25% by October.

Central American migrants, moving in a caravan through Juchitan, Oaxaca are pictured atop a train known as “The Beast” while continuing their journey toward the United States, in Mexico on April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Jose de Jesus Cortes

“Immigration discussions at the White House with representatives of Mexico have ended for the day. Progress is being made, but not nearly enough!” the president tweeted Wednesday, repeating his long-held beliefs that the Mexican government does little to stop illegal migrants from reaching the U.S. border.

Should Trump accept the terms of the deal, he would likely tout the concessions as a major victory. An agreement would also be a sigh of relief for Republicans in Congress, many of whom publicly expressed their reservations about entering a tariff war with the country’s third largest trading partner. (RELATED: Border Patrol Reports A Surge Of Africans Trying To Illegally Cross The Border)

Details of the negotiations come as the illegal immigration crisis appears to be only getting worse. Over 130,000 illegal migrants were apprehended on the southern border in May, the third consecutive month where encounters topped 100,000 and the largest rate of migrant arrests in over a decade.

Border Patrol apprehended over half a million illegal migrants this fiscal year.

Follow Jason on Twitter.

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/06/mexico-makes-immigration-concessions/

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It’s been pretty intense this week. We found out that chairman Kim (according to South Korean sources) put to death some of those who negotiated with President Trump’s team when the summit ended without progress in Vietnam. You don’t offend the North Korean dictator and live to tell about it.   Based on recent experience, the executions will probably be blamed on President Trump. But executions in North Korea are nothing new.   Neither are assassinations.   Remember Kim’s half-brother, smothered with deadly chemicals at an airport?   Remember Kim’s uncle, blown to bits in front of an assembled audience with rounds from an anti-aircraft gun? He’s killed his chief advisors and close family members without remorse.

But the President has been accused of “cozying up to the dictator,” because he wants to be a dictator too according to mainstream anchors and experts apparently reading from an approved script.   We heard that from the mainstream media for two or three days straight while Trump was in Japan this week. They claimed he “sided with the dictator” against advisors in his own administration.   Some of us rather enjoy the President’s off-the-cuff remarks and interviews. The media tries to diagram every sentence and every word to find some dark motive or meaning and then pounce.

After the special counsel gave his convoluted and contradictory nine minute public statement this week, the media and political class went nuts with impeachment predictions.   Truth is, they’ve gone further than that.   Any peek at the mainstream networks shows that the anchors and pundits are not only cheerleading for impeachment, but floating every possible strategy they think might fly.   They dare not relinquish their offensive posture lest their plot to overthrow the President should see daylight and penetrate the public consciousness.   We’re still waiting for the lid to be blown off the attempted coup.   Evidence is already available showing the investigators knew “Russia collusion” was a crock the whole time.

Yesterday it was announced that products produced in Mexico for export to the U. S. will face a 5% tariff beginning June 10, unless Mexico helps turn the caravans around rather than shuttling them to our border. Once again the experts are beside themselves, pulling their hair and rending their garments.   “These are just taxes that will be paid by American citizens, costing them thousands per year.” That’s what they say about the tariffs on China too.   But, what if we don’t buy things produced in Mexico or China?   How much will it cost us then?   With nearly a quarter million illegal aliens being bussed or flown to cities inland, far from the border, it’s way past time something was done!

Parliamentary elections in Europe this week definitely have the old guard of the European Union and promoters of the globalist movement rather concerned.   Our domestic media has downplayed and misrepresented the results, but the British and numerous European populations have had about enough of their leaders foisting Muslim “diversity” upon their cultures. Nigel Farage, sometimes called the godfather of Brexit, came out of retirement a mere six weeks ago to form his own party (the Brexit party) and took it to a stunning victory.   Poor Theresa May’s Conservative Party came in dead last.

The pope will probably let his disapproval be known any minute now.   Last week we told of his statement that a global government is needed to combat climate change. He’s campaigned for unlimited immigration into Europe and the United States, accusing critics of racism or xenophobia.   He’s refused to meet with (Deputy Prime Minister) Salvini of Italy because he dares to speak of the cost, culturally and financially, of mass Muslim migration.   Word is that Farage and Salvini have teamed up to form a coalition within the EU parliament.

For the moment, it looks as though the globalist/EU movement is on its heels. Neither the U. S. nor the European media is prepared to admit that the ideology they’ve promoted whole hog is falling out of popular favor.   But it’s not over yet, not by a long shot.   Britain is still not out of the EU.   Nigel Farage says that he’ll campaign for the post of British Prime Minister if the British parliament can’t see its way clear to get Britain out of the EU in the meantime.

We’ve noted for years that the EU is in trouble, politically and economically.   The burning question is what will replace it?   Old Europe, as the world knew it, barely still exists.   Right now the European media and “old guard” continue to shill for globalism and mass immigration, as does the mainstream media in the U. S.   They never seem to concede defeat, just as they’ve never accepted Donald Trump as the legitimate President.   With any luck at all, they’ll be forced to choke on reality within our lifetimes.   Now that would be good news.

Mark

PS. A new edition of Twenty-first Century WATCH has been completed and gone to print. It shouldn’t be long now.  We’re also planning to be at Land Between the Lakes for the Pentecost weekend June 9th & 10th, and would love to see you there if you’re able.

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