1) Trump is sucking up to Germany and Japan because the US needs them in their continuing strategy of containment of Russia and China.

2) Since there is no war, and lets assume Trump is not racist, why would the US treat Mexico significantly less?

---> All three countries has historically run big trade surpluses with the US for more than two plus decades, with only Mexico recently (post NAFTA) and not as big as Japan per annum average

---> According to the Congressional Budget Office in 2007, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration claims that undocumented workers have contributed close to 10% ($300 billion) of the Social Security Trust Fund

---> A Harvard economist, Jorge Borjas, has stated that illegal immigrants from 1980-2000 have reduced the wages of high school dropouts in the U.S but has increased the average American’s wealth by 1%

---> Illegal immigrants pay social security payroll taxes but are not eligible for benefits!

---> Dept. of Homeland Security figures ... there is 11.4 million illegal immigrants, the average cost of $26,300 per deportation. Thus the final cost would be $300,833,000,000 billion

-------> Trump figures there are 30 million illegal immigrants. And at a cost of $26,300 per deportation, the final cost would be $791,666,000,000 billion


In a nut shell ... the profuse claims that illegal immigrants have hurt the economy are without significant support by the available data.

--> Many trumpettes run the flag up the pole by proclaiming that illegal immigrants represent an assault on our sovereignty. If this is true, then it will be such a profoundly clever way for a country to employ its invaders!

--> The real core of the problem is US greed! Dam those margin ... it torpedo another trump! There he blows!