Trump's hardball on Mexico ... is working

Monica Showalter  "Risky as President Trump's tariff threat tactic on Mexico is, it appears to be ... working.

"Trump's hardball measures have gotten Mexico to deploy some serious measures to keep the migrant surge into the U.S. from becoming a flood. Somehow, a trade treaty works best when there's a security treaty underlying it, and Mexico thus far seems to recognize this. The markets, by the way, are noticing.

"According to Fox News:

Reports in the evening indicated that Mexico's negotiators with Washington have offered to immediately deploy 6,000 National Guard troops to the border with Guatemala. Additionally, Mexico has reportedly agreed to a major overhaul of reasonable asylum protocols, which would require asylum applicants to seek permanent refuge in the first country they arrive in after fleeing their home countries.

"...and...

Also on Thursday, Mexico's financial intelligence agency announced it had frozen the bank accounts of 26 people who it claimed "have presumably participated in migrant smuggling and the organization of illegal migrant caravans."

The agency said it had detected money transfers from central Mexico to six Mexican border cities presumably related to the caravans.

"Here's another one, a particularly satisfying one cited by Breitbart:

Mexican authorities arrested two men suspected of promoting and organizing the migrant caravans that moved thousands of migrants from Central America to the U.S. border. Officials claim that the two men demanded money from Central American migrants in exchange for getting them illegally into the U.S." . . .

How to get Mexico to pay attention to our border incursions...  . . . "The tariff threat appears to be getting some results, as we see in news reports. 

"At the same time, do not underestimate Mexican public opinion.  In other words, most Mexicans do not like the caravans walking through their country either.

"As I've said before, President Trump's unconventional approach is often a step ahead of his critics.  On this issue, he is again." . . .