President Trump on Monday said a 25% tariff on all products from Mexico and Canada until the invasion of illegal aliens invasion is stopped and the flow of deadly fentanyl into the United States is ended.
More than 15 million illegal aliens – most of them military-age males – have come through the open border since Joe Biden became president and relaxed border policies in 2021. The number of illegal immigrant men of fighting age now inside U.S. borders outnumbers the enlisted men in the U.S. military.
The fentanyl crisis, according to a congressional study, costs the United States a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020, up 37% from 2017.
The mainstream media pounded on Trump’s tariff statement, saying tariffs will raise prices on everything:
New York Times: Trump Plans Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China That Could Cripple Trade
Washington Post: Mexico and Canada push back against Trump’s tariff threats
USA Today: Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada could raise the prices of these goods
BBC: Trump threatens China, Mexico and Canada with new tariffs
CNN: Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes
Trump is delivering on a promise to Americans that he will do everything to stop the invasion, starting Day One. He said both Mexico and Canada have the power to stop the illegal alien invasion and the tariff will remain in place until the tsunami of deadly Fentanyl and illegals is curbed. Trump said he would add an additional 10% tariff to Chinese goods, most of which already have a tariff that he imposed during his first term, which President Biden did not remove.
Here’s what the mainstream media is not explaining:
The federal government spent over $66 billion on illegal immigrants in 2023 alone, not including what states, counties, and cities spent last year, or the pass-through funds given to nonprofit organizations working with illegal immigrants.
From testimony by Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, before a congressional committee in January:
“The current surge of illegal immigration is unprecedented. Some 2.7 million inadmissible aliens have been released into the country by the administration since January 2021. There have also been 1.5 million “got-aways” — individuals observed entering illegally but not stopped. Visa overstays also seem to have hit a record in FY 2022.
“We preliminarily estimate that the illegal immigrant population grew to 12.8 million by October of 2023, up 2.6 million since January 2021, when the president took office. This is the net increase in the illegal population based on monthly Census Bureau data, not the number of new arrivals.
“Using the National Academies’ estimate of immigrants’ net fiscal impact by education level, we estimate that the lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus costs) for each illegal immigrant is about $68,000, although this estimate comes with some caveats.”
Read the full Camarota testimony here.
Since Biden took office in January of 2021, over 54,366 pounds of fentanyl have been intercepted crossing American borders— more than enough fentanyl to kill the entire human population on the planet. Yet federal officials estimate they are only intercepting 5-10% of what is being smuggled across the border. Much of that fentanyl is coming from China, through Mexico.
According to a congressional study, the cost of the fentanyl epidemic was $1.5 trillion in 2020. The report can be read here.
