As RedState reported at the end of November, President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexico to force the country to cooperate in an effort to stop the influx of illegal aliens and deadly fentanyl from crossing the southern border appeared to bear fruit.
Trump said at the time that he “just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo” and that she “has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern border.”
Trump said Mexico would work to stop the influx immediately.
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Welp, that was then, and this is now.
Sheinbaum Pardo celebrated her country’s “migrants” living in the U.S. during her daily news briefing on Wednesday, calling them “heroes.”
The Mexican president trotted out a song titled “Migrant Hymn,” which included lyrics in both English and Spanish. One verse reads: “Where we are from, no nos rajamos” (we don’t give up). Stressing migrants’ loyalty to Mexico, the song says, “Cambiamos de lugar, no de bandera” (We change our location, not our flag).
Sheinbaum Pardo called Mexican migrants in America “heroes” in part because they sent $63 billion back home to relatives in 2023.
Here’s more via AP:
The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year, Mexico’s central bank said Thursday.
The money transfers, known as remittances, have been booming since the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of growth continued to cool somewhat in 2023.
In 2022, remittances grew by 13.4%, totaling about $58.9 billion for the year as a whole. In 2021, remittances grew by an astounding 27.1%, totaling about $51.6 billion for that year.
Observers have said the slower growth may be due to a combination of factors like slower economic growth in the United States — where most Mexican migrants work — higher inflation and a stronger Mexican peso.
Remittances now surpass almost all other sources of the country’s foreign income, including tourism, oil exports and most manufacturing exports.
While the report doesn’t differentiate between illegal aliens and legal migrants, it doesn’t take a proverbial rocket scientist to figure out that given the more than 10 million illegals who have crossed the southern border during four years of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis™, the amount of cash continuing to leave America for Mexico has continued to increase.
Trump remains steadfast in his pledge to “mass deport” illegal aliens when he takes office, even if their home countries refuse to accept them. He reportedly asked Sheinbaum Pardo if Mexico would receive non-Mexicans in the event of deportation, yet she had already said she plans to receive Mexican citizens only.
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On the same day Sheinbaum Pardo rolled out the hymn, a migrant shelter in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa announced it could no longer accept newcomers because gangs were kidnapping them.
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Rev. Héctor Silva, who runs the Senda de la Vida (Path of Life) in Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, said the situation is so dangerous in the cartel-dominated border city that police escort migrants to appointments for their U.S. asylum applications.
“Until people have security and they stop kidnapping migrants when they arrive … we don’t want any more arriving,” said Silva.
With due respect to Rev. Silva, we don’t want any more illegal aliens arriving in America, either.
So there it is.
President Joe Biden and his administration intentionally created an illegal alien crisis of historic proportion that incoming President Donald Trump is intent on ending. While I believe Trump will get the job done to the best of his ability, I don’t believe it’s going to be a piece of cake.
Why, you don’t think Joe Biden and Democrats believe the same, do you?
