By R. Cort Kirkwood
Like Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has accepted the hard truth that the man in the White House isn’t asleep most of the day, waking only to enjoy a cone of Graeter’s chocolate chip ice cream.
Three days ago, President Donald Trump vowed a 25-percent tariff on Mexico if it didn’t help stop the drug trade and illegal-alien invasion at the southwest border. Today, Sheinbaum cracked.
She surrendered on X, writing that 10,000 Mexican soldiers would head to the border to avoid the tariff. That tariff is now on hold for 30 days.
In a showdown last week, Petro cried uncle when he tried to refuse the return of deported Colombian illegal aliens.
…Trump’s goal is not to start a trade war. He claims he is trying to stop those countries from sending drugs and illegal aliens into the United States.
Those nations “have allowed an unprecedented invasion of illegal fentanyl that is killing American citizens, and also illegal immigrants into our country,” White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said:
The amount of fentanyl that has been seized at the southern border in the last few years alone has the potential to kill tens of millions of Americans. And so the president is intent on doing this.
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