To the editor: President-elect Donald Trump proposed rates on products imported from Mexico will seriously disrupt the Mexican economy, which could lead to layoffs and higher unemployment there. This situation could increase the flow of migrants from Mexico seeking employment in the United States.
Ironically, these same immigrants could likely find work in the factories and farms whose workers will be deported under Trump's proposed mass deportation policy. Talk about a vicious cycle.
Noel Johnson, Glendale
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To the editor: “Mexico, Canada and China react to Trump's comments, they and economists wonder if he is serious”: this subtitle evokes a line from the movie “Patton”, where before a big battle, the general yells at his subordinates that if they don't do it, If we don't make it, “let no one come back alive!”
Someone responds: “You know, General, sometimes men don't know when he's acting.” The general responds that it is not important for them to know, “it is only important that I know it.”
It is not beyond speculation that Trump uses this strategy when negotiating with other entities, whether they are country leaders, politicians or the media.
Marcus Kourtjian, Northridge
