“Meanwhile, here’s what I will tell you, while DC is so worried about Vladimir Putin, that he’s the worst person ever, I guarantee you someone in your neighbourhood has died from fentanyl sourced from Mexico.”
Kirk slammed Sheinbaum’s response, described her as a threat to US sovereignty, and called for direct action against Mexican drug cartels.
“She is meddling in our own country’s affairs,” Kirk said. “Meanwhile, here’s what I will tell you, while DC is so worried about Vladimir Putin, that he’s the worst person ever, I guarantee you someone in your neighbourhood has died from fentanyl sourced from Mexico.”
Kirk argued that Sheinbaum and the cartels in her country pose a greater threat to Americans than foreign powers like Russia or China. “Of all the world leaders, I think I detest the president of Mexico the most. You know, we talk about the Chinese Communist Party, we talk about Russia, but honestly, do you want to hear a provocative statement? This woman is likely causing more havoc in America than Vladimir Putin has caused in mainland America.”
He continued, “Yeah he had some massive troll farms in Macedonia, I’m sorry, this woman, the president of Mexico, is talking about leading an uprising in the interior of America and she’s got a lot to work with because she has a lot of sleeper cells.”
Kirk described the US–Mexico relationship as “parasitic” and called for taxing remittances to cut off cartel funding.
"Taxing remittances is way overdue, far overdue, because remittances are the money payment that makes the cartels’ financial model make sense,” he said.
“The cartel will smuggle a family up from Mexico to come into America and then they have to send a portion of the money to the cartels and a portion to a foreign power. This is a president of a foreign power. She’s not a governor of a state, she’s the president of Mexico. The nerve of this person, of this woman.”
“I think we need a 30 percent tax on remittances. Just crush it, go super hard. 30 percent,” he said.
He also tied Sheinbaum’s recent statements to wider instability, saying, “Is all this uprising that we’re seeing—is the Mexican government behind this? Could be? Is the Mexican government pulling any strings? They’ve got plenty of material to work with. One in four people in California were not born there.”
Turning to the violence in Los Angeles, Kirk suggested Sheinbaum is responsible for stoking unrest: “No wonder… I guarantee you someone in your local area has had their house broken into because of the open borders brought to you by [Sheinbaum.]”
He suggested the US should escalate its approach to cartel operations. “Maybe it’s the time to start taking out cartels, to start drone striking cartels. Is it time to start finding these meth and fentanyl facilities and just saying ‘alright, thanks Steinbaum, an F-35 right on a cartel-run drug operation.’ I’m just asking.”
“She really wants this confrontation?” Kirk asked. “Because the cartels in Mexico have done infinitely more harm to America than the foreign powers we’re supposed to care about. I’m not looping al-Qaeda into that, but Iraq—why did we invade Iraq when Mexico is poisoning our own people? It’s because our leaders don’t actually care about the well-being of America.”
“If Russia deserves $200 billion for us to fight them, how much money should we use to fight the cartels? We’ve spent $200 billion of your money and my money going into deficit spending, and yet they are declaring insurrection against us, they’re cheering it on and waving Mexican flags. They’re waving foreign flags on US soil. They’re bragging and taunting you that they’ve taken over the American homeland.”
Kirk’s comments came in response to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s press conference Sunday following mass ICE raids in Los Angeles and the riots that followed. “Mexicans living in the United States are good men and women, honest people who went to the United States to seek a better life for themselves and to support their families. They are not criminals. They are good men and women,” Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum condemned US immigration enforcement actions and said, “We disagree with this approach to the migration phenomenon. It’s not about raids or violence, but rather working on a comprehensive reform that takes into account the Mexicans on the other side of the border. That is our position, always a call for peace, to not exacerbate any form of violent protest.”
The ICE operations that began Friday in the Los Angeles area resulted in the arrest of 118 individuals, including 35 Mexican nationals.
The raids triggered mass demonstrations and eventually riots, including outside federal buildings and in the city of Paramount. Protesters waved Mexican flags and chanted “ICE out of LA!” Federal agents used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to disperse crowds.
President Donald Trump responded by deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, including 300 soldiers from the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, to protect federal property. California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the move, writing, “Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into LA County -- not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis. He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.”
Source link