President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> signaled on Monday after designating Mexico&#8217;s drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) that they are now fair game for the U.S military to take care of inside of Mexico&#8217;s borders.
&#8220;If the cartels are going to be seen as foreign terrorist organizations, would you consider sending U.S. special forces into Mexico to take them out?&#8221; a reporter asked Trump as he signed dozens of executive orders in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.
&#8220;Could happen,&#8221; Trump said with a large grin on his face. &#8220;Stranger things have happened.&#8221;
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Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order on Monday night that designated the cartels as FTOs, warning that they work with hostile foreign governments, have characteristics of insurgencies, engage in asymmetric warfare, and have infiltrated foreign governments across the Western Hemisphere.
&#8220;The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States,&#8221; the order said. &#8220;In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.&#8221;
The order said that the cartels&#8217; incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an &#8220;unacceptable national security risk to the United States.&#8221;
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The order said that within the next two weeks, the Secretary of State &#8220;shall take all appropriate action, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, to make a recommendation regarding the designation of any cartel or other organization described in section 1 of this order as a Foreign Terrorist Organization consistent with 8 U.S.C. 1189 and/or a Specially Designated Global Terrorist consistent with 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order 13224.&#8221;
Trump declared a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to &#8220;deal&#8221; with the threats posed by illegal alien criminal gangs Tren de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> national security adviser Mike Waltz previewed some of the executive orders that Trump is expected to sign shortly after being sworn into office on Monday at noon.
Waltz made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when asked what Trump had planned.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have his campaign promises that he promised to the American people right out there on the table, in terms of border, in terms of energy, in terms of taking on this kind of DEI, woke culture that has infected so many parts of our federal government, including our military, returning us to a meritocracy,&#8221; Waltz said.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t emphasize enough though, on the border, the American people gave him a clear mandate: lock down our border, deport the worst of the worst, take on the cartels,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We cannot have a situation where we have paramilitary gangs that are shooting down aircraft with heavy weapons, controlling 30 percent of our neighbor Mexico and controlling whole swathes of our border.&#8221;
He said that the Mexican drug cartels &#8220;are paramilitary organizations with billions at their disposal, with armored vehicles, heavy machine guns that are fighting the Mexican army, not police, army, to a standstill.&#8221;
Waltz said that Trump would focus first on getting criminal illegal aliens out of the country and returning them to their countries of origin.
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2023 Concordia Annual Summit – September 18

Mike Waltz Highlights Major Executive Orders Trump To Sign On Day 1

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AUSTIN, Texas – The large, organized constellation of United Nations and nongovernmental organization (NGO) agencies sees a rosy future for itself even under Donald Trump, having already directed billions of mostly U.S. taxpayer dollars into supporting millions of illegal southern border crossing trips during President Joe Biden’s term.
Perhaps, in part, to keep the migratory pressure on America’s southern border, using U.S. taxpayer money, as Trump mounts a planned border crackdown this year.
The U.N.-organized conglomerate recently released its 2025-2026 “<a href="https://www.r4v.info/en/rmrp2025-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)</a>,” which is a budget needs analysis for Latin America migration support developed during the U.S. presidential campaign but recognizes in its published iteration that Trump was re-elected.
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The document calls for maintaining spending levels as high as when a mass migration torrent was at full throttle in recent years. It wants $1.4 billion to support 2.3 million foreign nationals from throughout the world who will be on the move toward the U.S. southern border through 17 Latin American countries, and $1.2 billion in 2026. That’s down from 2024’s $1.6 billion and <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/United-Nations-Hand-Out-Hundreds-Millions-Cash-USBound-Immigrants-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023’s $1.72 billion</a>.
The 14 U.N. and 230 NGO agencies (<a href="https://www.r4v.info/en/rmrp2025-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a list of these agencies can be found on page 434</a>) will use the funding in 2025 to support 14 different forms of migration or refugee assistance in the hemisphere, including, for instance, $259 million in “cash, voucher assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance” to 390,000 foreign nationals during 2025. That money will be dished out as <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-11/FY_2021_MPCA_Sector_Update_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rechargeable cash debit cards</a>, “<a href="https://emergencymanual.iom.int/cash-based-interventions-cbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cash in envelopes</a>,” bank transfers, and mobile transfers for whatever migrants might need on the road.
They also call for $134 million in food provisions for 851,600 people, $13.5 million in “humanitarian transportation” to 94,800 foreign nationals, $297 million to 735,000 people for shelter such as hotels and longer-term rental properties, $150 million in health services to 1.4 million people, and millions more for a half dozen other kinds of migration needs on the trails.
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Spearheaded in 2019 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM), which receive the bulk of their money from the United States, the coordinated RMRP migration support effort initially started to meet the needs of more than seven million Venezuelans who emigrated out of their failing home country. But RMRP planning documents openly acknowledge mission creep to support migrants of all “other nationalities…engaging in transit and onward movements” to the U.S. southern border. In 2023, the U.S. contributed $1.9 billion to the UNHCR, compared to a mere <a href="https://reporting.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/Flexible-Funding-in-2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$377 million in 2019</a>. 
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The new document notes Trump’s reelection but does not explicitly discuss its 2025-2026 needs in conjunction with Trump’s plans to immediately halt more than three years of an illegal immigration border surge that The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-surge.html"> recently concluded in an analysis</a> was the “largest in U.S. history” and was directly caused by “President Biden’s welcoming immigration policy during his first three years in office.”
The group’s chief U.N. bureaucrat makes an oblique reference to a new negativity in “receiving nations” without naming the United States.
“It is essential to change the narrative that underscores the prevalent negative conception of migration agendas as only a source of problems and difficulties and keep striving for bringing to the fore the positive narrative of the contributions they can provide to receiving communities,” wrote Eduardo Stein, the UN’s Joint Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the document’s introduction. 
Left unsaid is exactly how the U.N. and NGOs proposing these large ongoing expenditures really view them in light of the anticipated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-effect-2-0-illegal-border-crossings-set-to-plummet-on-one-condition">reduction in migration flows</a> expected after Trump’s January 20, 2025 inauguration, when his &#8220;detain-and-expel&#8221; policies quickly replace Biden’s incentivizing catch-and-release policies.
Already, just the prospect of a Trump administration has vastly reduced international migration flows <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/migrant-flow-through-darien-gap-drops-40-panama-closes-trails-wired-fences-570442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by more than 40 percent</a> through the Colombia-Panama Darien Gap, while many immigrants in Mexico say <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14175103/mexico-migrant-crisis-trump-biden-todd-bensman.html">they’ll return to their home countries</a>.
The omission of straightforward references to the coming U.S. political pivot on illegal immigration suggests that the group likely assumes funding would be used to sustain migrants while Trump policies compel them to wait in third countries, perhaps waiting for – or even facilitating – Trump policy failure or for a future friendlier U.S. presidency.
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Regardless of U.N. intent, in the meantime, a potential – even probable – consequence of this continuing level of migration trail support would be to sustain steady pressure on Trump’s border for at least the next two years, perhaps even enough to induce policy failure.
The document seems to suggest some money might fund legal and propaganda operations.
For instance, one activity the group promotes as a high priority is to provide $204 million toward “protection,” topping the list is “legal assistance and counseling” that can counter a regional “shift towards more restrictive and security-focused approaches of managing migration and asylum…,” the document notes on page 77 in a category section titled “Protection.”
The legal assistance and counseling will, it says, reduce risks related to migrant returns to home countries that their advocates would argue were too dangerous, known as “refoulment,” as well as “deportations, and arbitrary and prolonged detentions.” The group will call on academics and human rights organizations in migration trail nations “to ensure visibility of key protection issues affecting refugees and migrants in the region.” Those might include countries the Trump administration plans to diplomatically coerce into helping slow flows.
<h3>A Point Of Contention And Potential Republican Action</h3>
In recent years, the UN-led conglomerate’s migration support efforts along the migration trails have become politically controversial because of the record-smashing traffic flows, especially among Trump supporters and some hardline border security-minded Republican lawmakers. Some saw the U.S. tax money funding the program as driving a self-destructive mass migration crisis that broadly damaged American national interests and advocated that U.S. money for that be pared back.
Republican lawmakers such as Texas Rep. Lance Gooden even <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6155" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a bill to defund the U.N. of U.S. donations</a>, which did not advance when congressional chambers were split between Republicans and Democrats.
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But with the trifecta of a White House and both chambers of Congress in Republican hands as of January 20, the prospects for some kind of funding rollback for this kind of U.N. and NGO support seem more likely. Rep. Gooden told The Daily Wire he would try again under the more favorable new circumstances.
“Under the Biden administration, U.S. dollars are being funneled through the United Nation’s IOM into programs that facilitate and encourage illegal migration into our own country,” Rep. Gooden told The Daily Wire for this report. “I will work with President Trump to ensure that no one cent of American money supports the erosion of our sovereignty. We will end this taxpayer funded invasion.”
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Dr. Nayla Rush, Senior Researcher at the Center for Immigration and a refugee policy expert, noted that the IOM and UNHCR mission is to assist migrants and refugees in need wherever they are. But as their top funder, the United States has a right to ensure neither organization is encouraging or guiding migrants to illegally enter the United States or submit false asylum claims.
&#8220;The U.S. government should ask for complete transparency and accountability as to where and how both organizations spend US taxpayer money.&#8221;
<h3>Creating Migration Pressure On Trump Or Reducing Suffering?</h3>
In early 2022, UNHCR spokeswoman for Mexico <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Mexicos-Deep-South-United-Nations-Explains-Handing-Cash-USBound-Migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silvia Garduno explained</a> that her agency does not look for or consider evidence of illegal immigration but, rather, regards individuals it helps who are moving through as “vulnerable asylum seekers.”
“UNHCR assistance is based strictly on the humanitarian need of individuals in need of international protection,” she said. “UNHRC supports the authorities by providing individuals information on the right to seek asylum and assists individuals while their asylum applications are in process by, for example, referring them to shelters operated by civil society, providing legal assistance, or providing humanitarian support for food and basic needs for the most vulnerable.
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But the group’s own document repeatedly acknowledges knowing that those it helps are moving ever forward over international borders without authorization.
The group is clearly not planning any retreat.
When it started operations in 2019, the conglomerate provided its aid via a network of ad hoc way-stations along known <a href="https://cis.org/Video/Cartels-UN-and-NGOs-Fuel-US-Border-Crisis">smuggling routes</a> from South America to the northern U.S.-Mexico border.
In recent years, however, the U.N. group has plowed investment funds into large multi-purpose structures like a <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/OneStop-Shop-Illegal-Migration">75,000-square-foot mega-mall</a> just built in Tapachula, Mexico just north of the Guatemala border.
The UNHCR, IOM, and dozens of private often religion-based NGOs scattered around Tapachula, will work alongside one another under one massive roof here – evidently planning a years-long collaboration.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter. He is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Covert-Border-War-Infiltration/dp/1642937258/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BP7S7BH2VBFB&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6ZnUZYfSlVsoiHcdjPhFHfMHLUTDwW2ZnKSAJboBbE5kdYf_h7sD08-h6YkTqOaoX3BwNswbUMPbnTbwQYA0OPgQiI3nLoLjosQWsEhFf5KFAPB4F0DTwUsSoJFgmaEF7V1rMQnOPvLvOLapFQ1ESD-D7UVwCNHsSGEs2XzEa9rmO1CLoVV277SrmlPOkJf.15UkCaAoqCyd7hpP16dl7D3_ZWawrd1RcN3D_ZSFo4w&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=todd+bensman&amp;qid=1730314546&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=todd+bensman%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Covert Border War</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overrun-Unleashed-Greatest-Border-History-ebook/dp/B0BS1R9LCP?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History</a>.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
This article has been edited for clarity.

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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. in the coming weeks will be renaming the &#8220;Gulf of Mexico&#8221; to the &#8220;Gulf of America.&#8221;
Trump made the announcement during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago while speaking about trade deficits that the U.S. has with its southern neighbor.
&#8220;We have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They&#8217;re essentially run by the cartels. And we can&#8217;t let that happen. Mexico is really in trouble. A lot of trouble. A very dangerous place.&#8221;
Trump said that at a future date, which he said would be &#8220;pretty soon,&#8221; that his administration will be &#8220;changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.&#8221;
&#8220;The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name!&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s appropriate. It&#8217;s appropriate.&#8221;
Trump said that the U.S. has the right to do it because &#8220;we do most of the work there, and it is ours.&#8221;
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Trump says that the drug cartels run Mexico and that the country is in deep trouble
He also announces that he is changing the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” <a href="https://t.co/bSpmJp5SZY">pic.twitter.com/bSpmJp5SZY</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1876673987683754435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
Mexico is in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-threats-are-already-yielding-results-in-the-fight-against-cartels">frantic state of preparation</a> for the incoming Trump administration as officials worry Trump could take military action against the country’s notorious drug cartels.
Mexico’s new far-Left president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who blames her country’s problems on the U.S., has tried to calm nerves in her country over the possibility of U.S. military intervention, claiming: “There won’t be an invasion. It’s not going to happen.”
The Wall Street Journal reported that Mexican officials are rushing to gauge just how serious the threat from Trump is, especially considering that two of Trump’s picks for his upcoming administration — Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) for national security adviser and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense — are proponents of the idea.
Trump indicated on the campaign trail that he would use military action against the drug cartels, who fuel the deaths of north of a hundred thousand Americans per year. He’s also indicated he would use the U.S. Navy to stop fentanyl precursors from arriving in Mexico from China and he would designate the drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). He’s also threatened steep tariffs if Mexico does not stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Journal reports that in response to Trump’s threats, Sheinbaum is starting to take action against the Sinaloa cartel, arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficking organization. Mexican law enforcement has made record seizures of fentanyl from the cartel and she sent her security minister to Sinaloa “to oversee the efforts to take back control of a state where organized crime dominates.”
The country is also setting up an elite unit of security officers, who will be vetted and trained by the U.S. for operations against the cartels in Mexico, the report said.

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Mexico’s leftist president is trying to take away any chance President-elect Trump could order the use of military force against the infamous Mexican drug cartels that control much of Mexico and traffic lethal drugs across the American border.
Trump said last weekend, “All foreign gang members will be expelled and I will immediately designate the [drug] cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. I will do so immediately.”
Trump’s choice for national security advisor, hard-core conservative Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) <a href="https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=659">co-</a><a href="https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> legislation in January 2023 calling for an “Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Mexican cartels for trafficking lethal fentanyl and other related activities that have caused destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.”
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice for Defense Secretary, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-invasion-mexico-cartels-rejected-165339125.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the cartels are “terrorist-like organizations poisoning our population. &#8230; If it takes military action, that’s what it may take, eventually. Obviously, you’re gonna have to be smart about it. Obviously, the precision strikes. But if you put the fear in the minds of the drug lords, at least as a start, [and] they can’t operate in the open with impunity, [it] changes the way they operate.”
Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-plan-to-set-us-special-forces-on-mexican-drug-cartels-and-why-experts-say-it-won-t-work/ar-AA1uYsDR" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> Trump “will use [the] full might of the United States Special Operations to take ‘em out”.
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“There won’t be an invasion,” Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-mexico-drug-cartel-fentanyl-us-military-fb9f193c?mod=hp_lead_pos4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a news conference. “It’s not going to happen.”
“Unlike the sitting president, Joe Biden, President-elect Trump believes his utmost priority is the safety and security of American citizens, and he will, in fact, take the necessary actions to uphold this responsibility,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated.
Waltz said on Fox News in October, “Green Berets helped, with just a few dozen soldiers, the Colombian government take down the Medellin cartel, take down the FARC. Remember, they were bombing airliners, they were threatening to overthrow the entire government. We have to take the same approach with the cartels in Mexico, Sinaloa, and Jalisco, that control nearly a third of the country fighting the Mexican Army, not the police, to a standstill, control our border, and are making billions of dollars per month trafficking humans, fentanyl, and weapons into our country. &#8230; Not only do they dominate our border now, they are setting up outposts and gangs in our inner cities. We have got to get this situation under control. Green Berets have a unique mindset by, with, and through locals, law enforcement, and others to do that.&#8221;
“These cartels are now connecting with our foreign adversaries and acting as proxies. The Iranians are working with them for assassination attempts and infiltrating Hezbollah. ISIS is infiltrating, we arrested eight in three different cities plotting to attack us again, and I think most significantly, [cartels] are working with the Chinese Communist Party,” he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363748499112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.

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A Customs and Border Protection pilot was killed Monday in a helicopter crash near the California-Mexico border. 
CBP said that the agent, an unidentified Air Interdiction Agent, was on a security mission when the helicopter went down in Potrero, California, in San Diego County. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation and Safety Board are <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-customs-border-protection-pilot-killed-helicopter-crash-near-san-diego" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigating</a> the crash. 
“On December 16, a CBP Air and Marine Operations aircraft on a border security mission was involved in an aviation mishap in the vicinity of Potrero, California,” a CBP spokesman <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1868825846208983182" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Tragically, a CBP Air Interdiction Agent &#8211; the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft &#8211; was pronounced deceased at the scene. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.”
NBC San Diego <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/1-dead-helicopter-crashes-far-east-san-diego-county/3702060/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the helicopter went down in the middle of a field in a hemp farm. 
According to CBP, Air Interdiction Agents “perform air law enforcement operations involving the detection, prevention, interdiction, and apprehension of terrorist, terrorist weapons and other contraband and persons from illegally entering or attacking the United States.”
Earlier this year, the San Diego sector became one of the hot spots for illegal crossings into the United States, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/san-diego-migrants-california.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> over 37,000 in April alone. 
Republican San Diego County Board Supervisor Jim Desmond <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/new-ordinance-san-diego-countys-sanctuary-status/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week that the area is one of the worst in the country for human and drug trafficking. He told NewsNation that around 155,000 illegal migrants have been released into San Diego since 2022. 
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The board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-diego-county-board-of-supervisors-votes-to-protect-violent-illegals-sheriff-fires-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> last week 3-1 for a policy that would turn the jurisdiction into a “super sanctuary” county, thereby preventing its sheriff’s department from notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who had committed violent crimes.
However, San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez indicated that she would disregard the board’s policy. 
“The Sheriff’s Office will not change its practices based on the Board resolution and policy that was passed at today’s meeting. The Board of Supervisors does not set policy for the Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff, as an independently elected official, sets the policy for the Sheriff’s Office. California law prohibits the Board of Supervisors from interfering with the independent, constitutionally and statutorily designated investigative functions of the Sheriff, and is clear that the Sheriff has the sole and exclusive authority to operate the county jails.”

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced three new appointments for ambassadorships on Tuesday night as he continues to fill out key roles for his incoming administration.
Trump appointed Kimberly Guilfoyle to serve as the United States Ambassador to Greece.
&#8220;For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend and ally,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Her extensive experience and leadership in law, media, and politics along with her sharp intellect make her supremely qualified to represent the United States, and safeguard its interests abroad.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;Kimberly is perfectly suited to foster strong bilateral relations with Greece, advancing our interests on issues ranging from defense cooperation to trade and economic innovation.&#8221;
Guilfoyle said in a statement that she was honored to accept the nomination and that she looked forward to earning the support of the U.S. Senate.
&#8220;President Trump’s historic victory is bringing hope and optimism to the American people and to freedom-loving allies across the world,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was the democratic values born in Greece that helped shape the founding of America.&#8221;
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&#8220;And now, we have an opportunity to honor that history by bringing better days here at home and abroad,&#8221; she added. &#8220;As ambassador, I look forward to delivering on the Trump agenda, supporting our Greek allies, and ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity.&#8221;
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I’m honored to accept President Trump’s nomination to serve as the next Ambassador to Greece and I look forward to earning the support of the U.S. Senate.
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Trump also nominated private equity real estate investor Tom Barrack to serve at the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.
&#8220;For three decades, Tom successfully managed a global private equity firm,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He is a well respected and experienced voice of reason to a wide range of thought leaders in both political and business circles.&#8221;
&#8220;Tom was born and raised in Southern California, and earned a BA and JD from the University of Southern California and University of San Diego where he was a member of Law Review,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Congratulations Tom!&#8221;
Trump also announced that he nominated Ronald Johnson, who served as Trump&#8217;s Ambassador to El Salvador during his first term in office, to serve in his second term as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
&#8220;Ron will work closely with our great Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to promote our Nation’s security and prosperity through strong America First Foreign Policies,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He also served our Country for over twenty years with the Central Intelligence Agency after a distinguished career in the U.S. Army as a Green Beret.&#8221;
&#8220;He graduated from the National Intelligence University with a Master of Strategic Intelligence,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Congratulations Ron. Together, we will put an end to migrant crime, stop the illegal flow of Fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into our Country and, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!&#8221;

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President-elect Donald Trump bloodied Mexico and Canada with diplomatic buckshot <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215051155542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier this week</a> by writing that, on his first day in office, he’ll levy devastating <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unveils-tariff-ultimatums-against-canada-mexico-and-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25% trade tariffs</a> on those two U.S. neighbors if they fail to crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
Much public puzzlement has filled international media coverage over why Trump would single out Canada for punishment equal to that of the far guiltier Mexico. 
“To compare us to Mexico is the most insulting thing I’ve ever heard from our friends and closest allies, the United States of America,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/canada-trump-tariffs-mexico-12e925cfc44432140d0a776503e095ae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.</a> “I found his comments unfair. I found them insulting. It’s like a family member stabbing you right in the heart.” 
“We shouldn’t confuse the Mexican border with the Canadian border,” Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said.
But this narrative seems intended to deflect public acknowledgement of what the liberal progressive government of Justin Trudeau did in fact do to draw Trump’s tariff ire. In terms of immigration policy, the Canadian offenses are indeed much different from Mexico’s open super-highway mass migration wave-throughs during the Biden-Harris years. But Canada’s policies have, arguably, damaged U.S. national security and public safety interests in harmful ways that media outlets on both sides rarely report.
<h3>Canada’s Massive Legal Immigration Program As A U.S. National Security Threat </h3>
Much of the damage arises from an historic <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63643912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian legal immigrant importation program</a> of unprecedented scope. Since the program’s 2021 implementation, the Great White North has imported some 1.5 million foreign national workers (400,000+ per year for a country of 38 million) from dozens of developing nations and hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67964674">foreign students in 2023 alone</a> – making it another record-breaking year.
Why are those programs a U.S. problem? Because a spiking number of foreign nationals are apparently abusing the Canadian programs as a lily pad from which to illegally enter the United States between northern border land ports of entry, among them <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-terrorist-from-jordan-arrested-us-northern-border-ice">proven threats</a> to U.S. national security and public safety.
Why this traffic leaking into the United States is a problem – even though the total numbers illegally entering from Canada are small relative to those crossing from Mexico – arises from the fact that many hail from Muslim-majority nations and have, Canadian media reports, fueled a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/canadas-jihadi-crisis-should-worry-america-opinion-1961520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spate of terrorism</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trudeau-blasted-for-dancing-while-montreal-burned-during-anti-semitic-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic attacks</a> throughout Canada. In addition, far too many of the Mexicans Canada has allowed in turned out to be cartel drug traffickers and killers.
These are the kinds of criminals crossing the U.S. northern border in increasing numbers due to Canadian policies — policies Canada could address if it wanted to.
Consider that U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions in the brush between U.S.-Canada land ports of entry jumped from 2,238 in 2022 to 23,721 in 2024, neatly coinciding with Trudeau’s mass legal immigration programs.
Among those crossing illegally from Canada, for instance, were 15,827 Indian nationals in 2023 and 2024, 8,367 Mexicans, and 3,833 from unspecified countries listed only as “Other” on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s public statistics website.
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<h3>A Border-Crossing Terror Plot Foiled</h3>
Concerns on both sides of the northern border have been simmering for some years as Canadians witness newcomers carrying out <a href="https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2024/father-and-son-arrested-terrorism-offences">terror plots</a>, actual attacks, and perhaps some of the record-breaking nearly <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bnai-brith-antisemitic-report-record-high-1.7195197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6,000 antisemitic incidents</a> Canada has logged since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
What’s been happening in Canada was obvious to many.
“Canada has become a hotbed of radicalization, fanaticism, and jihadism,” wrote Casey Babb, Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/canadas-jihadi-crisis-should-worry-america-opinion-1961520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek shortly after the arrest</a>. “As un-Canadian as it sounds, Canada has a terrorism crisis on its hands and that should worry the United States for a whole host of reasons.”
<a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/isis-and-its-violent-central-asian-chapter-are-threatening-canada-and-the-west-with-jihad-are-we-ready-to-fight-back-hussain-ehsani-for-inside-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concern</a> would reach an apogee in October 2024, when a joint U.S.-Canadian counterterrorism operation thwarted a plot by a Pakistani student <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Meanwhile-Northern-Border-Jihadist-Attack-New-York-Thwarted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on a Canadian visa</a> to illegally cross the northern border to conduct an October 2024 massacre of Jews in New York.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani citizen legally issued a Canadian student visa in June 2023, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pakistani-national-charged-plotting-terrorist-attack-new-york-city-support-isis-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now stands accused</a> in U.S. federal court of plotting an illegal-smuggler-assisted northern border crossing to carry out a mass shooting of Jews in New York City to celebrate with blood the October 7 anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel. Khan hoped it would go down in history as “the largest U.S. attack since 9/11.”
“We are going to nyc (sic) to slaughter them” with AR-style rifles and hunting knives “so we can slit their throats,” Khan told an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a co-conspirator, according to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s._v._khan_complaint_0.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an agent complaint</a>. “Even if we don’t attack an event we could rack up easily a lot of Jews.”
His was among the record-breaking <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67964674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400,000 foreign student visas</a> Canada issued in 2023.
That alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York State should have been enough to renew Trump’s interest in turning diplomatic pressure onto Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau’s mass legal immigration policies and border security on its side.
But terrorists cannot be the only concern.
<h3>Mexican Cartel Killers And Traffickers In Canada Crossing Too</h3>
The incoming Trump administration will need to force resolution of another issue regarding U.S. public safety concerns dating back to an especially damaging 2016 Trudeau move that did great harm until it was addressed just recently. Trudeau <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2016/12/canada-lifts-visa-requirement-mexico-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescinded 2009 visa requirements</a> on Mexican citizens and against the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mexico-visa-restrictions-lifting-three-amigos-1.3648757" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advice of his own government</a>. Mexican criminals would abuse the policy to fly in at will and bedevil both Canadian and northern American cities.
That all began in early 2017. A sustained surge was underway of Mexican nationals who, unable to easily cross the southern border under Trump 1.0, were flying over the United States into Canada. They would claim Canadian asylum and cross southward over the less tended northern U.S. border.
Among them were the predicted Mexican cartel operatives.
Leaked Canada Border Services Agency <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3578905/justin-trudeau-mexican-visa-more-criminals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intelligence reports</a> said Mexican &#8220;drug smugglers, human smugglers, recruiters, money launders and foot soldiers&#8221; were turning up in greater numbers than ever before. The cartels went to work building human smuggling networks to move other Mexicans south over the American border, just as they did all along the southern border.
In July 2017, Global News quoted <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3578905/justin-trudeau-mexican-visa-more-criminals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the intelligence reports</a> saying the ultra-violent Sinaloa cartel had turned up in Canada to &#8220;facilitate travel to Canada by Mexicans with criminal records.&#8221; Others identified included La Familia Michoacana, Jalisco New Generation, and Los Zetas.
For instance, whereas the reports said 37 Mexicans linked to organized criminal groups had entered between 2012 and 2015, 65 involved in &#8220;serious crimes&#8221; were identified midway through just 2017, compared to 28 in 2015. By May 2019, at least <a href="https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlmntry-bndrs/20200621/fp001/index-en.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400 Mexican criminals</a> connected to drug trafficking, including sicario hitmen, were plying their trades in Canada, at least half of them in Quebec, according to a May 24, 2019, report in the <a href="https://torontosun.com/news/crime/100s-of-drug-cartel-members-have-entered-canada-since-liberals-waived-mexican-visa-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toronto Sun</a> and other Canadian <a href="https://tnc.news/2019/05/25/canadian-authorities-have-lost-track-of-400-mexican-hit-men-and-drug-traffickers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media outlets</a>.
All had entered through the Trudeau visa loophole for Mexicans.
By the end of 2019, Canada saw a <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mexican-ambassador-cautions-against-re-imposing-visas-to-address/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1,400% spike</a> in the number of bogus Mexican <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4042075/mexico-refugee-claims-spike-visa-lift/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugee claims</a>, the vast majority naturally rejected, and of associated <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-immigration-mexico-detention/canadas-detention-of-mexicans-surges-after-visa-lift-idUSKBN1942IW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detentions</a>.
<h3>Canada Finally About To Face The Music</h3>
Only in February 2024 did the Americans pressure the Canadians to finally <a href="https://apnews.com/article/canada-mexico-visa-requirement-59cf64c5d74271cb2e3f40970ffb4786" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reimpose some visa restrictions</a> on Mexicans — though not all. Now, only Mexicans who already <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-will-reinstate-some-visa-requirements-mexicans-says-cbc-2024-02-28/">hold a U.S. visa</a> or old Canadian one can travel visa-free, while most other Mexicans with neither will have to apply for a Canadian one.
The damage is already done, but there&#8217;s always a chance Trudeau could revert to visa-free once again.
From January to mid-October 2022, for instance, 7,698 Mexican asylum seekers took direct flights from Mexico City to Montreal, according to <a href="https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/the-number-of-mexican-asylum-seekers-in-canada-has-increased-dramatically">a November 2022 Canadian Press story</a>.
The paper quoted officials at nonprofit refugee assistance groups attesting that most fly to Canada because they found out Trudeau’s visa-free policy also got them government financial assistance while awaiting their mostly denied asylum applications.
In their October 2021 book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wolfpack-Millennial-Mobsters-Canadian-Underworld/dp/0735275394" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld</a>,&#8221; journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Najera established that the Sinaloa Cartel now <a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/how-mexican-cartels-settled-canada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a foothold</a> across eastern Canada, with “solid control of cocaine shipments in and out of Canada.” The Arellano Felix group has its foothold in Vancouver and in the state of Alberta.
The Zetas are in Canada “involved with temporary migrant workers.”
Asked in 2023 if Canada’s importance to Mexican organized crime had increased “in recent years,” co-author Luis Najera answered: “I would say it has increased since criminal cells moved up north to settle and expand operations here. It is also strategic to have groups operating north of the U.S. border, close to key places such as Chicago and New York, and without the scrutiny of the DEA and rival groups.”
Canada is not Mexico but its policies pose consequences for the United States.
Any normal U.S. administration would put Canada on the hook for adjusting its policies and more robustly guarding its supposedly treasured neighboring ally, the United States, from harm. If punishing trade tariffs finally focus Canada’s attention on those policy-driven harms, let them last until Canada fixes what it recklessly broke.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter. He is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Covert-Border-War-Infiltration/dp/1642937258/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BP7S7BH2VBFB&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6ZnUZYfSlVsoiHcdjPhFHfMHLUTDwW2ZnKSAJboBbE5kdYf_h7sD08-h6YkTqOaoX3BwNswbUMPbnTbwQYA0OPgQiI3nLoLjosQWsEhFf5KFAPB4F0DTwUsSoJFgmaEF7V1rMQnOPvLvOLapFQ1ESD-D7UVwCNHsSGEs2XzEa9rmO1CLoVV277SrmlPOkJf.15UkCaAoqCyd7hpP16dl7D3_ZWawrd1RcN3D_ZSFo4w&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=todd+bensman&amp;qid=1730314546&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=todd+bensman%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Covert Border War</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overrun-Unleashed-Greatest-Border-History-ebook/dp/B0BS1R9LCP?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History</a>.”
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‘Proven Threats To U.S. National Security’: Canada, Cartels, And Trump’s Tariffs

'Proven Threats To U.S. National Security': Canada, Cartels, And Trump's Tariffs

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said on Wednesday evening that he had a &#8220;wonderful conversation&#8221; with far-Left Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about what the two can do to fix the illegal immigration and drug problem in Mexico that is impacting the U.S.
The conversation comes after Trump threatened to slap heavy tariffs on Mexico if the country did not get its act together in combatting the drug cartels, who are also large drivers of the illegal immigration problem in the U.S.
&#8220;She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, U.S. consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation!&#8221;
Trump said that Mexico would stop migrants headed to the border &#8220;effective immediately,&#8221; which he said would &#8220;GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA.&#8221;
He added that when he takes over in January, his administraiton will be launching a &#8220;large scale&#8221; advertising campaign warning the American public about the dangers of fentanyl.
&#8220;By the time the Campaign is over, everyone will know how really bad the horror of this Drug is,&#8221; he said.
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Sheinbaum wrote in her own statement that the conversation with Trump was &#8220;excellent&#8221; and that they also discussed &#8220;strengthening collaboration on security issues within the framework of our sovereignty and the campaign we are carrying out in the country to prevent the consumption of fentanyl.&#8221;
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Tuve una excelente conversación con el presidente Donald Trump. Abordamos la estrategia mexicana sobre el fenómeno de la migración y compartí que no están llegando caravanas a la frontera norte porque son atendidas en México.
También hablamos de reforzar la colaboración en… <a href="https://t.co/PlGS5w3ZpC">pic.twitter.com/PlGS5w3ZpC</a>
— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claudiashein/status/1861886965248934033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Trump: Mexico’s President Vows To Stop Illegal Immigration To U.S. Southern Border

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Far-Left Mexican President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/claudia-sheinbaum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudia Sheinbaum</a> threatened to impose tariffs on the United States in a letter addressed to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday as she blamed her country&#8217;s problems on the U.S.
Sheinbaum&#8217;s letter came in response to Trump saying in a statement on Monday that the U.S. would impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada until they stopped drugs and illegal aliens from reaching America&#8217;s borders.
The 62-year-old threatened in her letter that &#8220;for every tariff, there will be a response in kind, until we put at risk our shared enterprises.&#8221;
She said that &#8220;dialogue is the best path&#8221; to resolving problems facing the two nations.
&#8220;Even so, it is clear that we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country, as well as address the root causes that compel families to leave their homes out of necessity,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;If even a small percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility.&#8221;
She claimed that Mexico has &#8220;consistently expressed its willingness to help prevent the fentanyl epidemic in the United States from continuing,&#8221; even though the Mexican government has failed to deliver any kind of significant results. She correctly noted that the precursor chemicals arrive in Mexico from countries overseas, but she failed to name the main culprit — China — opting instead to say they come from &#8220;Asian countries.&#8221;
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She blamed the violence in her country on weapons that come from America. &#8220;We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.&#8221;
She claimed that Mexico had reduced the number of illegal aliens reaching the U.S. southern border by 75% and that half of those who do arrive do so using the Biden administration&#8217;s CBP One App.
&#8220;For these reasons, migrant caravans no longer arrive at the border,&#8221; she claimed, after more than 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. southern border from Mexico over the last few years.
Former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf said earlier this year that the Biden administration was masking the true number of illegal aliens entering the U.S. by using the CBP One App.
&#8220;In June 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration said Border Patrol apprehended 84,000 illegal aliens&#8211;allegedly the lowest since they took office,&#8221; Wolf said in a post on X. &#8220;But there is MUCH MORE to this story.&#8221;
Wolf then explained what the administration was not telling the public.
&#8220;In addition to the 84,000 illegal crossings in June: 1⃣ 47,000 illegal aliens were encountered at ports of entry, using the CBP One app to schedule their unlawful entry,&#8221; he posted on X. &#8220;2⃣ Approximately 56,000 &#8216;gotaways&#8217; evaded Border Patrol and disappeared into American communities.&#8221;
&#8220;3⃣ Approximately 30,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were provided parole and allowed to fly into the country through their preferred airport,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Altogether, around 215,000 illegal aliens unlawfully crossed our borders in June—not 84,000—which the Biden-Harris Administration wants you to believe.&#8221;
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In addition to the 84,000 illegal crossings in June:
1⃣ 47,000 illegal aliens were encountered at ports of entry, using the CBP One app to schedule their unlawful entry. 
2⃣ Approximately 56,000 “gotaways” evaded Border Patrol and disappeared into American communities. 
3⃣…
— Chad Wolf (@ChadFWolf) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadFWolf/status/1823771997429702959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Far-Left Mexican President Threatens U.S., Blames U.S. For Mexico’s Problems

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Canadian Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/justin-trudeau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justin Trudeau</a> said on Tuesday that he had a &#8220;good call&#8221; with President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unveils-tariff-ultimatums-against-canada-mexico-and-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to impose tariffs on goods from Canada if it did not crack down on the flow of drugs and illegal immigration coming into the United States.
&#8220;I had a good call with Donald Trump last night, again. We obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about how the intense and effective connections between our two countries flow back and forth. We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together. It was a good call,&#8221; Trudeau <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1861439035865993448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> on Tuesday.
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PM Trudeau tells reporters re: phone call with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump after threat to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada &amp; Mexico: &quot;It was a good call. This is something that we can do, laying out the facts, moving forward in constructive ways.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://t.co/GeJJK0Xrnx">pic.twitter.com/GeJJK0Xrnx</a>
&mdash; CPAC (@CPAC_TV) <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC_TV/status/1861421159981687028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is something that we can do. Laying out the facts, moving forward in constructive ways. This is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on, and that’s what we’ll do. One of the really important things is that we be all pulling together on this. The ‘Team Canada’ approach is what works,&#8221; Trudeau added before noting that he spoke with other Canadian leaders and planned a First Ministers&#8217; meeting this week to address the situation.
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In a Monday evening <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215051155542?_nlid=5grW7vfxVB&amp;_nhids=emy3uBKWd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump indicated that he would begin his second term with a flurry of executive orders that would include tariffs on Canada, as well as Mexico, calling out the U.S. neighbors and raising concerns about people &#8220;bringing&#8221; crime and drugs across the borders.
&#8220;On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,&#8221; he said.
Trump added: &#8220;This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!&#8221;
With a more combative <a href="https://x.com/ishaantharoor/status/1861451172676047288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also responded to Trump, warning that tariffs the United States implements on Mexico could be followed by similar penalties on U.S. goods.
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&#8220;President Trump, migration and drug consumption in the United States cannot be addressed through threats or tariffs. What is needed is cooperation and mutual understanding to tackle these significant challenges,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;For every tariff, there will be a response in kind, until we put at risk our shared enterprises.&#8221;
In a second <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215408213585?_nlid=XDHP6ZQZfB&amp;_nhids=emy3uBKWd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to Truth Social on Monday, Trump took aim at China, promising an &#8220;additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products&#8221; that he said would remain in place until Beijing cracks down on drugs flowing to the U.S. He once again singled out fentanyl.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Trudeau Says He Had A ‘Good Call’ With Trump After Threat Of Tariffs

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> threatened on Monday to impose tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico as well as China that will remain in place until they stem the flow of drugs and illegal immigration coming into the United States
In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215051155542?_nlid=5grW7vfxVB&amp;_nhids=emy3uBKWd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump indicated that he would begin his second term with a flurry of executive orders that would include tariffs on U.S. neighbors.
&#8220;On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,&#8221; he said.
Trump added: &#8220;This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!&#8221;
With a second <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215408213585?_nlid=XDHP6ZQZfB&amp;_nhids=emy3uBKWd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Trump took aim at China, promising a separate tariff that he said would remain in place until Beijing cracks down on drugs flowing to the U.S. He once again singled out fentanyl.
&#8220;I have had many talks with China about the massive amounts of drugs, in particular Fentanyl, being sent into the United States – But to no avail,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Representatives of China told me that they would institute their maximum penalty, that of death, for any drug dealers caught doing this but, unfortunately, they never followed through, and drugs are pouring into our Country, mostly through Mexico, at levels never seen before.&#8221;
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He continued: &#8220;Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products coming into the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter.&#8221;
Speculation about Trump reigniting trade wars had already sparked discussion about potential economic impacts. With his tariffs announcement on Monday, discussion got underway about the finer details of what the plan might entail.
As <a href="https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/1861201691561074689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> on X by Heather Long, an economic columnist for The Washington Post, there are &#8220;a range of tariffs currently on China,&#8221; and therefore it seemed that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;goal&#8221; would be &#8220;35%+.&#8221;
On X, there was a flurry of reactions to Trump&#8217;s tariffs ultimatum.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, for instance, <a href="https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1861198845574815947">said</a> on X that using tariffs as a political and  foreign policy &#8220;weapon&#8221; aligns with Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; agenda. Tech executive Elon Musk, who has been tapped to help lead Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861201014772433332">responded</a> to the plan by quipping that the price of fentanyl will &#8220;rise sharply.&#8221;

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