Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo revealed that the U.S. agreed to curb gun smuggling into Mexico—something omitted from Trump’s statement about their call.
While Trump announced that Mexico would send 10,000 troops to the U.S. border, he did not mention this key concession.
Studies show 68–90% of traced firearms in Mexico originate from or pass through the U.S.
The tariff pause follows Mexico’s commitment to increased border security, but Sheinbaum’s disclosure highlights a significant aspect Trump did not publicly acknowledge.
April 12, 2021:
According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Mexico will maintain a deployment of about 10,000 troops…
Mexico announced in March that it was deploying National Guard members and immigration agents to its southern border, and it has maintained more personnel at its southern border since Trump threatened tariffs on Mexican imports in 2019.
Unless someone can find a source that states that Mexico ever withdrew their 10k troops during the last 3 years… yeah, they already had 10k troops on their southern border, they’ve… just been redeployed to their northern border.
The posted article here from RawStory kind of alludes to how this is a nothing victory by linking to another of their own articles at the end of this one.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariff-mexico/
“Mexico has made similar agreements without the threat of tariffs,” posted Sam Stein, of The Bulwark and MSNBC. “Here in 2021 they agreed to surge the same number of troops to help with migration. Here in 2022 they agreed to invest an additional $1.5b. Here in 2023 were 15 administrative actions.”
“It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are,” said Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell. “‘Oh you want 10,000 troops?’ says world leader who already deployed 15K. ‘Great 10k it is.’”
This is why Sheinbaum has an ear to ear smile in the image.
The majority of illegal immigrants comes over legally through ports of entry and just out stay their visas. Mexico is laughing as they pretend to send 10,000 troops to the boarder to watch dirt.
to watch dirt
Nah. Those people will have a lot to do stopping weapons smuggling into Mexico.
The weapons are purchased legally by Americans and simply driven over. Also through legal ports of entry. It’s not this complicated process.
simply driven over
That’s called smuggling.
More guns flow into Mexico than flow into the U.S. — a fact that Vice President J.D. Vance was corrected on during the vice-presidential debate.
Hey, hey, hey now!
You guys said you weren’t going to fact check
Just the media showing their lib’ruhl bias again. I wonder why facts seem to be so biased against good stolid conservative values.
Facts are just there to prove people wrong
It’s just impolite
Trump emerges from this fiasco looking like the bitch that he is.
I hope the US agreed to the same thing for Canada, too.
Pretty much all of Canada’s gun crimes are committed with weapons smuggled in from the States.
He’s not going to, which is why he didn’t mention it. He probably forgot he promised as soon as he said he would.
Honestly, that’s not a bad deal. The US gets fentanyl enforcement. Mexico gets the flow of guns slowed, which weakens the cartels.
The tariff thing was a silly dance to get there, though. Makes me wonder if that wasn’t market manipulation. Knowing the tariffs would hit in the morning, then get lifted before enforcement would have made it very easy to play the market for a ton of money.
but… the Mexican government already had the troops on the border. Biden did that in 2021… so nothing new there. Most Fentanyl is smuggled in my US citizens as they are not scrutinized as much as a Mexican citizen coming in legally or illegally. So again not much of a win… seems like a tantrum that is planned to set him and his wealthy friends to swoop in
So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.
Regarding fentanyl, trump did everything except actually address it. Why not impose sanctions on Chinese pharmaceutical companies? Improve regulations to allow tracking of fentanyl ingredients (which are legal), create a task force that would trace suppliers and help impose more sanctions.
As is tradition, your mistake is in assuming he actually wants to help anyone
Or they could have addressed both fentanyl in the US and the cartels in Mexico by just agreeing to end the war on drugs…
Except the US would giving up the current source of slave labor by stopping the war on drugs.
Almost nothing of the US fentanyl gets in through Mexico…
How do you figure? From my understanding China and other places make precursor ingredients which are then manufactured in the field in Latin America. Are you saying the vast majority is fentanyl manufactured in China and shipped directly to the US?
Where do you get yours from.
This is what I fucking said Trudeau should do.
