By Beth Van Duyne for RealClearPolitics
Strolling down lengthy, ornate hallways, throughout a grand central courtyard adorned with a Pegasus-topped fountain, and thru but extra corridors, our bipartisan delegation was guided to the workplaces of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for what we hoped could be a well timed and helpful assembly for our nations.
For the reason that enactment of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement (USMCA), ongoing commerce points proceed to flare up, and because the starting of the Biden Administration our southern border with Mexico has deteriorated right into a chaotic, harmful, and lawless morass.
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Within the days main as much as this assembly, Individuals have been kidnapped and killed in a border city, document seizures of lethal fentanyl have been made, parts of the Mexican army and state police invaded and took over company amenities owned and operated by U.S.-based corporations, and we have been notified that mass unlawful immigration, pushed by Mexican drug cartels, was once more reaching traditionally unimaginable numbers.
It was with these vital points in thoughts that we made final week’s journey to Mexico Metropolis to go to with the president of Mexico.
Maybe it was too bold to consider our next-door neighbor, and largest buying and selling accomplice, could be open to a dialogue about how we may higher work collectively for higher financial and nationwide safety. Actually, we not solely need a valued and sincere buying and selling accomplice in Mexico, but in addition to depend them as an ally in opposition to nations, and multi-national organizations, who’re hostile to free and democratically elected governance.
Sadly, over the course of the three-hour assembly with President López Obrador, it turned abundantly clear that none of those mutually useful aims have been of any curiosity to him.
Moderately than meaningfully have interaction with our delegation, which included Jason Smith, the newly elected Chair of the Home Methods and Means Committee, López Obrador sought to lecture us concerning the frailty and corruption of the US, blame American households for the rise in fentanyl poisonings, and denigrate American farmers for not being as much as Mexican requirements.
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There have been a number of cases the place we interrupted his rambling and unhinged screed to level out extensively accepted info like Mexican drug cartels disguising fentanyl as sweet or lacing it into generally used drugs comparable to Adderall or Xanax, ensuing within the deaths of tens of 1000’s of unwitting American youngsters. To López Obrador, none of this mattered.
I’ve lengthy mentioned that when somebody tells you who they’re, it’s best to consider them. On this respect, the assembly with López Obrador was all too revealing. He made it very clear he’s not focused on a real partnership with our nation. He couldn’t have cared much less about how Mexican drug cartels have killed extra Individuals than we misplaced within the Vietnam Warfare.
And he definitely has no objections to the Mexican army and police authorities forcefully confiscating the capital investments and amenities of U.S. corporations doing enterprise in Mexico. Merely put, with President López Obrador, there isn’t any rule of regulation in Mexico and Individuals are unwelcome.
The place does this go away us if we actually wish to shield Americans and fulfill essentially the most fundamental accountability of a functioning and sovereign authorities?
Regardless of the tens of billions of American taxpayer {dollars} which have flowed to Mexico to assist with regulation enforcement personnel, coaching, and financial enlargement help, Mexico is functionally managed by the panoply of drug cartels who obtain “hugs, not bullets” from the Mexican president. Taken along with Biden’s Open Border insurance policies, López Obrador and Biden are a Mexican drug cartel Dream Group, and the folks of BOTH international locations are struggling mightily. Clearly, a extra direct engagement with the drug cartels, very similar to how we handled ISIS, is so as if we’re to noticeably fight the lethal penalties they’re inflicting on the American public.
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Conducting these focused operations can not contain corrupt and infiltrated Mexican authorities. Solely an unleashed and empowered American army and intelligence company can ship the sort of direct assaults the Mexican drug lords so richly deserve. We ought to be going after their funds to freeze and seize them wherever doable and repurpose these {dollars} for American border safety.
To convey our level on to bear on these murderous worldwide criminals, American particular forces have confirmed significantly adept at introducing our enemies to Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles. Make no mistake, these individuals are our enemies, they’re the killers of our neighbors, and they’re going to by no means cease killing Individuals till we finish their existence on this planet.
President López Obrador can hold delivering dishonest, bloviating lectures to America and hugs to cartel thugs. For the safety of our nation and our households, it’s time to ship righteous vengeance. Maybe afterwards, López Obrador, or the subsequent Mexican president, may begin to care about having a really significant and mutually useful relationship with our nice nation.
Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne represents the twenty fourth Congressional District of Texas within the U.S. Home of Representatives, which incorporates parts of Tarrant, Denton, and Dallas counties. She serves on the Home Committee on Methods and Means, and the Home Committee on Small Enterprise, the place she is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Laws. Previous to being elected to Congress, Beth served as regional administrator for the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement (HUD), Mayor of Irving, Irving Metropolis Council Member, and a businesswoman.
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