Transcript: Trump-MAGA Rage at Mexico Takes a Dark, Menacing Turn
Rivlin: It runs up against reality. Everybody who’s having Thanksgiving dinner this week is having food on their table that has passed through the hands of immigrant farm workers—many of whom don’t have legal status because we just don’t have a legal system for allowing those workers to come here and work, even though on every single table in the U.S., that food is going to be consumed this week.
On fentanyl: Ninety percent of the people who are arrested bringing fentanyl into the country are U.S. citizens bringing it in in vehicles through ports of entry. So 90 percent of the folks who are bringing it in are U.S. citizens, and 100 percent of the folks who are using it are U.S. citizens, right? There’s just a huge demand for drugs in this country that’s fueling Mexico’s drug industry. We’re acting to try and destabilize that by taking out their leaders, but we’re not addressing the underlying problem, which is we’ve got people who want drugs in this country and they’re willing to send money and guns south to get it. That is enormously destabilizing, not just in Mexico, but throughout the world.
Sargent: Yeah. Here’s another good example of the MAGA fantasies we’re talking about here. Laura Ingraham said on Fox that there’s this new caravan that Mexico is doing nothing to stop. Absolute nonsense again. But in response, Eric Trump on Fox said that his father’s threatened tariffs will fix the situation, claiming that we will cost your countries, your economies, your businesses billions of dollars if you don’t act because my father is so damn tough.
