Trump will bring jobs back from Mexico — to be replaced by robots

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After a canceled meeting followed by a phone call with President Trump, Mexican leader Enrique Peña Nieto should send the new president a gift: two new studies that show the U.S. president’s claim that he will “make America great again” by bringing jobs back from Mexico is a nationalist-populist hallucination.

If these jobs ever come back — a big if — the vast majority of them will be replaced by robots.

On his first day in the White House, Trump signed an executive order to renegotiate the NAFTA free trade deal with Mexico and Canada, and to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal between the United States and 11 other nations, including Japan, Mexico, Peru and Chile.

“We will bring back our jobs, we will bring back our borders, ” Trump said in his Jan. 20 inaugural speech. “We will get people off welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.”

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