DTNZ: Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to U.S. border in exchange for tariff delay

Mexico has agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border in exchange for a one-month pause on tariffs threatened by former U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced.

Mark Angelides: Trump Lays Down the Law for Columbia

Columbia made a big show of refusing to accept flights from the United States returning illegal migrants. President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, January 26, made a series of public X posts in which he insisted the deportations were a non-starter until President Trump found a way to do it that treated the repatriated with the “dignity that a human being deserves.” Trump was far from amused and immediately put the full power of the executive to work. From tariffs to sanctions, Surprise, surprise, it worked. By Sunday afternoon – just a couple of hours after Trump’s response – President Petro sent his presidential plane to pick up the deported individuals in Honduras.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Ironies of Illegal Immigration

Protesters carry American and Mexican flags at immigration-reform march.

Mexico does not explain why its citizens wish to leave their birth country — or why they are eager to enter a country ridiculed by the Mexican press and government.

Estimates suggest that there are eleven million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens.

A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having a population of about 130 million, that amounts to some 44 million would-be immigrants.

Such massive potential emigration into the United States makes no sense.