Victor Davis Hanson | A Message to Mexico’s President: Fix Your Country Before Criticizing Ours

Under President Donald Trump, illegal immigration has hit record lows, and deportations are being executed at a stead pace thanks to ICE. However, Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has already pledged to offer legal help to illegal immigrants detained by ICE, criticized the U.S. for taxing remittances, and warned America not to touch cartel activity on Mexican soil.

Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how Mexico's trade practices, cartel complicity, and remittance dependence are fueling an asymmetrical relationship that benefits Mexico at America’s expense on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“ Ms.  Sheinbaum, why don't you do the following? Why don't you say that Mexican nationals are your citizens? They're key to your economic growth. You don't want them to leave your country. You have a new revisionist reform plan that you're going to offer them social services so that they don't flee to the United States. You're going to keep your own people in your own country.

“ The problem with Mexican-American relationships, as those polls reveal, is on your side. Don't run up surpluses by mercantile dealings with an existential enemy of the United States, China. Do not count on American taxpayers to subsidize your own citizens who entered illegally to send back 63 billion to your failing economy. And do not lecture us about the cartels—what we should and should not do about it—when you are enabling them to kill 70,000 Americans as a source of foreign exchange inside Mexico.”

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(0:00) Introduction to the Topic
(1:07) Sheinbaum's Stance on U.S. Policies
(1:50) Trade Imbalance
(3:08) Fentanyl Crisis and Cartel Involvement
(4:05) Remittances and Economic Impact
(5:14) Solutions for Mexico
(6:52) Conclusion