Mexico
April 29, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, Mexican migrant in SoCal hit with $1.82M fine for living in the US illegally: ‘Leave now or face consequences’ I do hope this headline is 100 percent accurate. The unnamed “Southern California woman” is described as follows, Her immigration attorney, William Menard, said the woman has no criminal history, no public safety issues, and has spent years complying with immigration authorities while applying for a
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February 23, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Life imitates art. In the 1987 sci-fi comedy Robocop, the in-movie TV news anchor updates the future Detroit audience on breaking world news, More fighting in the Mexican crisis when American troops joined in a raid with Mexican nationals against rebel rocket positions in Acapulco. Fast forward to 2026. From CBS News, Violence erupts in Mexico after cartel leader “El Mencho” killed in military operation. CBS reports, Four soccer games
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November 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn
So much time, space, and attention is lavished on whatever the fake news of the day happens to be that what may be news of great significance slips by with little notice. From BBC News, At least 120 people – 100 of them police officers – have been injured in clashes during anti-government protests in Mexico City, police said. Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Mexican capital on Saturday to
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October 7, 2025 — Bill Glahn
It’s progress of a sort. From Fox News, Cuban-led caravan aims for Mexico City as Trump policies deter migrants from US. Details, A 1,200-person caravan of largely Cuban migrants is heading north from Mexico’s southern city of Tapachula in a weeks-long pursuit of better economic opportunities. But the destination is not the U.S. border, it’s Mexico City. The destination of the caravan signals a stark shift in regional immigration trends
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September 3, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, US could see first population decline ever in 2025 as international migration plummets. It’s not so much that international immigration is falling off so much as it’s the case international immigration is reversing. People are leaving, they are not coming. Net international migration to the US in 2025 could drop to as low as negative 525,000 this year, according to an analysis by the American
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August 30, 2025 — Bill Glahn
A worldwide backlash against tourism rages. From the BBC, ‘Gringos out!’: Mexicans protest against tourists and gentrification. It seems to be part of a trend. The BBC reports, Demonstrators gathered in Parque México in Condesa district – the epicentre of gentrification in the Mexican capital – to protest over a range of grievances. Most were angry at exorbitant rent hikes, unregulated holiday lettings, and the endless influx of Americans and
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May 26, 2025 — Bill Glahn
A record number of people living in the United States were born elsewhere. From the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), The government’s January 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS) shows the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal together) hit 53.3 million and 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population in January 2025 — both new record highs. CIS adds, At 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population, the foreign-born share
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February 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It was only a day or two ago when pundits and liberal economists (there aren’t many, but there are a few) were assuring us that a trade war with Mexico and Canada was underway, and would lead to higher prices in the U.S. and other significant economic damage. The stock markets opened steeply lower this morning, presumably as a result. But wait! The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump has agreed to
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November 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has clapped back at President-elect Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico,” Fox News reports, “saying she would impose tariffs of her own on the U.S.” Also protesting the tariffs is Mexico’s economy minister Marcelo Ebrard, who has a curious history with American elections. Ebrard served as mayor of Mexico City from 2006-2012 and mounted a failed campaign for president in 2011. After a
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March 14, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
We already knew these are strange times. Confirmation isn’t necessary. If it were, this report from the Daily Mail would suffice: For once, the conversation over closing the US-Mexico border is being driven by Mexican health officials who say they are considering shutting out Americans to keep coronavirus out of their country. There are currently more than 2,000 cases of the virus in the US and it is spreading rapidly.
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January 10, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Peter Brimelow has sued the New York Times for defamation, as reported by PJ Media. Brimelow is not a nobody. Among other things, he was the senior editor of Forbes magazine from 1986 to 2002. Brimelow is now the proprietor of Vdare, a site that can fairly be described, I think, as anti-immigration, a perspective that it shares with millions of Americans. (My own often-expressed opinion is that we should
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June 7, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Hand-wringing over imminent imposition of tariffs on goods imported from Mexico can stop: President Trump announced a deal tonight: I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
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June 4, 2019 — Steven Hayward
Really, I don’t understand the left sometimes. They’re very upset at the practice of “family separation” of migrant children at the border (a practice that goes back many years, keep in mind), but then I return to my Communist Manifesto to remind myself that a key demand for achieving socialism is abolishing the family. Nationalizing the children has been a staple of socialist visions at least since Plato. So when
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November 25, 2018 — Scott Johnson
In yesterday’s “Caravan update” I observed that we have here a test of wills between President Trump and the supporters of invasion. Indeed, for his part, President Trump announced twice yesterday via his favorite medium “If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!“
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October 31, 2018 — Scott Johnson
FOX News reporter Bill La Jeunesse seemed to me to be performing public relations work on behalf of the migrant caravan in his regular live hits from Mexico. Either that or he had succumbed to a variant of Stockholm Syndrome. Has Griff Jenkins relieved him? Jenkins has actually come up with a few stories, such as the presence of bad apples among the multitude (“Jose revealed his criminal past and
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August 13, 2018 — John Hinderaker
Conservatives have been saying for a long time that our porous southern border poses a security risk. Over the years there have been multiple news stories about Middle Easterners with terrorist connections being apprehended at the border, or after crossing the border. But because these crossings haven’t resulted in successful terrorist attacks, they have gotten essentially no notice. Meanwhile, Democrats are committed to the view that there is no reason
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June 1, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday, President Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. These U.S. allies promptly hit back. The EU said it would impose import taxes on, among other items, bourbon (this means you, Mitch McConnell). Mexico said it would levy tariffs on American farm products. Canada is set to impose tariffs on dozens of U.S. products including not just steel and aluminum products but also
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