It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power: We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico; Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?

It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power:

We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico.

Earlier this week, suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, who fired back. This took place on a strip of land in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island, also known as “Cartel Island” because it was previously used as a staging area for cartel smuggling operations. Texas authorities took over the island as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and declared it Texas territory in November 2023.

The incident illustrates why it’s time to start treating Mexico as a hostile foreign power that represents a direct threat to the American homeland — not just for the way the Mexican state has facilitated and encouraged illegal immigration, but also because it has allowed the cartels to take control of vast swaths of Mexican territory, infiltrate the Mexican government at the highest levels, and carry out sophisticated operations on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Having just issued an executive order designating some of these cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Trump should take the next step and begin military operations against them — inside Mexico. The president floated this idea five years ago, early in his first term, asking his military advisers about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to take our cartel drug labs. His advisers at the time dismissed the idea out of hand, but Trump’s instincts were right: If we want to control our southern border and stop the flow of illegal, deadly drugs into our country, we have to take the terrorist designation seriously and go to war with the cartels by taking the fight to them.

It’s not an outrageous or reckless idea. In early 2023, Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Mike Waltz, both military combat veterans, introduced legislation creating the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target Mexican drug cartels responsible for the fentanyl crisis at America’s southern border. The bill never went anywhere, just as previous Republican bills designating the cartels as terrorist organizations never went anywhere, but under the Biden administration it didn’t really matter. Biden was never going to do anything about the border, much less the cartels that control it.

But now with Trump in office there’s an opportunity to solve our border problem by treating it like the national security issue it has always been. Waltz, a former Green Beret who deployed to Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa, has been tapped by the Trump White House to be his national security advisor. He seems to understand the nature of the threat south of the Rio Grande. “The situation at our southern border has become untenable for our law enforcement personnel,” Waltz said in a 2023 statement introducing the AUMF. “It’s time to go on offense.”

He’s right. We can’t secure the border if our Border Patrol agents are going to be attacked by cartel gunmen from the south banks of the Rio Grande. The exchange of gunfire on the border happened exactly a week after Trump began his crackdown on illegal border crossings and ordered federal immigration authorities to begin arresting and deporting criminal aliens across the country. Border crossings have plummeted since Trump took office, dealing a blow to the cartels that profit off migrant trafficking. —>READ MORE HERE

Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?

Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?

Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.

Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?

After four years of Biden’s appeasement, Mexico seems to assume that it has a sovereign right to encourage the flight of millions of its own impoverished citizens illegally into the U.S. and further assumes that it can fast-track millions of Latin Americans through its territory and across our border.

Mexico either cannot or will not address the billions of dollars of raw fentanyl products shipped in—mostly from China—and then processed for export to the U.S. by its cartels across a nonexistent border.

Mexico seems to have little concern that some 75,000 Americans on average die from mostly Mexican-imported fentanyl each year—more deaths in just the last decade than all the Americans killed in action during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. Who then is our friend, and who is our enemy?

This appalling death toll is in part due to the deliberate efforts of the cartels to mask fentanyl as less deadly narcotics or camouflage the poison by lacing it into counterfeit prescription drugs.

Mexico encourages its expatriate illegal aliens to send back some $63 billion per year in remittances. That huge sum constitutes one of Mexico’s largest sources of foreign exchange, surpassing even its tourist and oil revenues.

These billions are often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. America’s local, state, and federal governments provide billions of dollars in food, housing, and health care entitlements that allow Mexico’s citizens, illegally residing inside the U.S., to free up the cash to be sent home.

According to U.S. census data, almost every year, the trade deficit with Mexico has increased from about $50 billion twenty years ago to $160 billion today. —>READ MORE HERE

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