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.
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.
Isn’t this mostly just for show for his base anyway? “See! I’m doing what I said I’d do!”
Well if it isn’t my old nemesis, unintended consequences.
I would be so tickled if this was the catalyst for stricter gun laws and enforcement.
When fascists start trying to get stricter on guns, it’s time to buy more of them.
A whole bunch of these people don’t get it. They’re still stuck in the my side/their side dichotomy. I’d be willing to bet money 90% of lemmy bends the knee and kisses the ring when it’s their turn.
As always, if your source for anything is “trump said”, you really don’t have a source. Just gotta ignore everything he says, it just feeds him.
I didn’t need Claudia to tell us that Trump folded and didn’t actually make any deals.
Those texan gun dealers love selling to the cartels through proxy buyers. They are so easy to find if you have access to the right information - just look at whoever buys more than two guns in a 6 month period… the top 80% of that list will probably be unable to procure all the guns they bought because they distribute them over the border.
If we can smuggle people in to the US easily, it should be trivial to smuggle weapons out of the US easily. Hell, if you take out the receivers you can do it in plain sight, just move the receivers illegally.
Trump emerges from this fiasco looking like the bitch that he is.
Export guns, import people.
Yeah I mean that’s what has been happening for decades and it’s worked out very well for the US. Profits from arms sales and a steady supply of cheap labor from immigrants. Don’t know why the Republicans suddenly want to kill their cash cow.
How in the hell has it worked out well for the US? Your population and country is a fucking disaster fire
Don’t know why the Republicans suddenly want to kill their cash cow.
They’re not.
Well, except maybe arms exports, but for cheap labor? If you create a class of people without rights, they become very exploitable.
Robots. we have Robots now, we dont need them. /s
We need to arm the robots and just get it over with.
Don’t know why the Republicans suddenly want to kill their cash cow.
The average conservative isn’t informed or intelligent enough to understand how drastically they benefit from the horrible working conditions that migrant workers deal with, and they hate brown people.
The entire movement has been backing themselves into this corner for decades.
He has two tricks:
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Accepting deal wins that aren’t wins - So a child had two cookies, you took them both, he starts crying, you give him one of the cookies to soothe him and you eat the other in front of him while he laughs and thinks he’s winning. In this examples, trump is the baby.
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Or, unseen solutions to imaginary problems or problems he created himself - Covers your house in gasoline, sits in a chair and throws lit matches towards it. Then says loudly, NOBODY IS GONNA BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN, YOU GOT IT! And then waits for you to thank him.
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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.
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…
Where do you get yours from.
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?
There has been lots of well published studies in the US last year. Well published enough to catch on the international press.
Most of their fentanyl seems to be smuggled out of their chemical and drug industries.
Your source?
Mexico and China are absolutely the source of pretty much all the illegal fent in the U.S.
So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.
The US gets fentanyl enforcement
Nothing was stopping the US from producing fentanyl.
The (claimed) issue was fent coming over the border, not domestically produced fent.
Right, so nothing changed except Mexico has an excuse to boost troops deployments on our border.
They didn’t need an excuse, more of their troops to the border was the ask.
Yes, I know the more troops on the border was the ask of the Mexican president, which made Donold buckle like a belt.
Those troops are to keep Americans out… Not to keep anyone in.
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
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
Just like Mexico cant stop the flow of drugs America wont be able to stop the flow of guns. Where there is demand people will find a way.
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
This is what I fucking said Trudeau should do.
Good for use as a talking point in the next round of nonsense that will start in a few weeks but impossible in practice. The US has been worshipping guns as a religion for 200 years and the Canada-US border has been perforated consistently by smugglers that whole time.
She has to know he’s lying and that this won’t last. I guess we’ll get a series of similar “agreements” until he’s gone.
Oh, she knows.
That’s why she demanded to be allowed to boost troops numbers on the northern border.
Otherwise, it could (and still.does) look like either preparing against an invasion, or readying for an invasion. The former being most likely.
Love the username, love how it ends with .zip, love the picture, love it in the context…
Bro, 10/10.
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.
