Texas Town Hates Trump's Wall

THERE IS A BORDER TOWN IN TEXAS THAT
IS VERY MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BUILDING A WALL.
THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE WEIRD ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE FACT
THAT IT IS TEXAS AND TEXANS OVERALL SEEM TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF
DONALD TRUMP WANTING TO BUILD A BORDER WALL HOWEVER, LAREDO,
TEXAS OF RELIES QUITE A BIT ON MEXICAN PEOPLE CROSSING THE
BORDER TO SHOP AT ITS MALLS AND STIMULATE ITS ECONOMY.
MORE THAN 6000 PEOPLE WALK INTO MEXICO ACROSS LAREDO'S
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE EACH DAY.
ABOUT 14,000 VEHICLES DAILY ALSO MAKE THE CROSSING, INCLUDING
4,000 SEMI TRAILERS THAT CARRY GOODS INTO MEXICO.
FOR SOME REASON WE ONLY KEEP TRACK OF HOW MANY PEOPLE
CROSS THE BORDER INTO MEXICO WHICH IS STRANGE HOWEVER, KEEP
IN
MIND THAT THERE IS A $120 MILLION MALL OUTLET
THAT OPENED IN MARCH ON THE U.S. SIDE OF THE
RIO GRANDE RIVER WITH ABOUT 60 STORES AND RESTAURANTS.
THE MALL RECENTLY TOOK IN $4 MILLION IN SALES IN THE TWO-WEEK
PERIOD WITH ABOUT 40% OF THOSE BEING CASH TRANSACTIONS.
CNBC INDICATED THAT'S A SIGN OF MEXICAN CONSUMER DEMAND.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SHOPPING CENTER AND
THE SIGNAGE, THE SIGNAGE IS POINTED DIRECTLY AT THE
MEXICAN BORDER BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO LURE IN MEXICAN
SHOPPERS IN ORDER TO BUY THESE PRODUCTS.
IN FACT, THE MAYOR
OF LAREDO IS LIKE YEAH, WE NEED THEM.
THEY ARE HELPING OUR ECONOMY TREMENDOUSLY.
DEVELOPERS CHOSE LAREDO BECAUSE OF MEXICAN CONSUMERS
AFFINITY FOR BRAND NAMES THAT ARE NOT AS READILY
AVAILABLE IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY.
AGAIN, LET'S HEAR FROM THE MAYOR OF LAREDO.
HE SAYS OUR LOCAL ECONOMY IS EASILY 40%
OR MORE DEPENDENT ON THE MEXICAN SHOPPER.
ON THE RAPISTS AND MURDERERS.
THEY COME ACROSS TO
SHOP AT THE MALL.
EVEN CRIMINALS NEED DESIGNER SHIRTS.
YOU NEED YOUR NIKES, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET OVER THE BORDER?
THAT PART OF TEXAS WENT FOR HILLARY CLINTON IN
OVERWHELMING NUMBERS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
I DIDN'T WANT THAT WHILE THE
I'M SURPRISED THAT AN OUTLET MALL IN LOREDO CALLED
OUTLET SHOPS WENT WITH THE S-H-O -P-P-E-S SPELLING.
THE CLASSY.
DON'T BE A HATER.
THAT'S VERY 70S.
THIS IS HIGH-END.
THERE TRYING TO LURE PEOPLE.
ITíS CLASSY, COME SHOP WITH US.
IT'S MORE EVIDENCE THAT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT
THEN IT DOESN'T NOW THAT
IS SO COMPLEX THOUGH, HOW WOULD HE HAVE KNOWN?
YOU HAVE LITERALLY ANYONE, YOU GET ANY EXPERT TO
EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO YOU AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND MEXICO IS, LOCATED, VITALLY IMPORTANT TO US.
WE TALK ABOUT A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GREAT BRITAIN
BUT OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH CANADA AND MEXICO BY THEIR VERY
NATURE ARE PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS WE'RE
EVER GOING TO HAVE A NAME ECONOMY IS HER INNER TRYING
INTERTWINED, THE BORDER IS MADE UP, THE PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN TEXAS
AND SOUTHERNERS THAT ARE NOT SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE
PEOPLE WHO LIVE ACROSS THE BORDER IN MEXICO IN THIS ATTEMPT
TO DELINEATE ARBITRARILY AND HARMFULLY AND ALSO HARMFULLY AS
HE IS NOW LEARNING OF COURSE ECONOMICALLY.
YOU THINK THE FORGET PEACE SIGNS, THE MAYOR OF LAREDO,
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO BACK TO THE SMALL THAT INVESTED MONEY IN IT.
THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE A WALL THAT IS GOING TO PREVENT
40% OF THEIR BUSINESS OR MUSIC COMING OVER AND SHOPPING.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE RETAIL INDUSTRY IS REALLY
TAKING A HIT RIGHT NOW.
THAT WAS A STORY THAT WE WERE GOING TO REPORT ON EARLIER THIS
WEEK BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE RAN OUT OF TIME WE DIDN'T GET TO IT
BUT A LOT OF MALLS RIGHT NOW ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO RENT
THE RETAIL SPACE BECAUSE A LOT OF STORES ARE SHUTTING DOWN.
MACY'S IS LOSING A TON OF BUSINESS, SEARS, ALL SORTS
OF BIG-NAME REAL RETAILERS THAT WE ALL GREW UP WITH ARE NOW
SHUTTING DOWN.
THEY ARE LAYING EMPLOYEES OFF.
RADIOSHACK IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT.
LOOK, THE SMALL WAS JUST BUILT IN MARCH.
THEY RELY SO HEAVILY ON MEXICAN SHOPPERS.
IT'S ALL NUANCED AND IT'S COMPLICATED AND IT IS NOT A
BLACK-AND-WHITE ISSUE JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE WE TALK
ABOUT ON THE SHOW.
JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICAL ISSUE AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE
HAVE ALLOWED PEOPLE IN POWER TO MAKE US THINK EVERYTHING IS
SUPER SIMPLE AND IT IS EITHER GOOD OR BAD BUT NO, THERE
GOOD PARTS OF CERTAIN THINGS, BAD PARTS, GRADATIONS THERE AND
IN THIS CASE, JUST BUILDING A WALL IS NOT THE END-ALL BE-ALL.
IT DOESN'T SOLVE OUR IMMIGRATION ISSUES, NOT EVEN CLOSE.
YOU ARE RIGHT THAT IT WAS CARTOONISHLY SIMPLIFIED BY TRUMP
AND THIS UBER FACILE EXPLANATION OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE FACE OF
THE BUILDING OF THE WALL AND THE WAY HE WAS CHARACTERIZING
THOSE WHO ARE INFILTRATING THIS COUNTRY AND THAT RESONATED
WITH ENOUGH PEOPLE TO PUSH THEM AHEAD THE
THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE SCHOOL CHOICE THE
EXACTLY, SAME THING.
THAT IS THE CONTINUATION OF THAT
GROUP SHOULD THERE NOT BE SEVERAL EDUCATION.
THE POINT IS AS ANA SAYS IN HIS MOST THINGS ARE, A VERY,
LOCATED ISSUE AND MOST, LOCATED ISSUES ARE NOT WELL
RECEIVED IN THIS WHITE HOUSE.
THIS WHITE HOUSE IS ABOUT SIMPLIFYING THINGS AND I
SAID I WANTED A WALL AND DON'T COME BACK INTO MY OFFICE
UNTIL YOU TELL ME THAT THE WALL IS UNDER WAY DOWN THERE.
HE IS GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF LEGAL HURDLES WITH THE WALL.
WHERE HE PLANS TO PUT IT THERE IS A LOT OF PRIVATE
PROPERTY THERE.
BUT JUST BASIC.
WE REPORTED ON THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THEIR RESORTS WHERE IF HE BUILDS THE WALL EXACTLY WHERE HE
IS PLANNING ON DOING SO IT WOULD CUT THESE RESORTS IN HALF.
HALF THE RESORT WOULD BE ON THE MEXICAN SIDE ANOTHER HALF
WOULD BE ON THE US SIDE.
IN SOME PLACES PRIVATE
PROPERTY WOULD END UP ON THE MEXICAN SIDE OF THE BORDER.
IT'S A COMPLICATED, DIFFICULT ISSUE AND AGAIN PEOPLE
THINK THAT IT IS BLACK-AND-WHITE THAT IT IS NOT.

Texas Town Hates Trump's Wall

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