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[JustTheNews] With a pin stuck in the tariff war phase of the negotiation, the question now shifts to follow-through by the Mexican government.
The promise by Sheinbaum was enough for a Trump-directed 30-day pause. However, its implementation will determine the success of such measures by Mexico.
The Mexican tariff standoff is enjoying a reprieve after the nation’s President announced that a deal was made to pause the tariffs for 30 days.
The White House announced the previous Saturday that tariffs would be go into effect for both Mexico and Canada at a rate of 25% as well as a 10% tariff on Chinese imports.
The issues cited by the Trump administration reflect his campaign’s emphasis on the fentanyl crisis, illegal immigration, and drug trafficking.
On the “X” social media platform Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said, "We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty” and committed to deploying 10,000 Mexican troops to Mexico’s northern border adjoining the United States.
A further concern is whether Mexico’s earnest efforts to keep up their end of the bargain could be corrupted by cartel-loyal troops.
Democrat governors of border states are ‘non-existent,’ says Border Patrol Council VP, hopes Mexican troops will provide reliefDemocrat governors of border states are ‘non-existent,’ says Border Patrol Council VP, hopes Mexican troops will provide relief
According to National Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Cueto, not all Mexican troops may be committed to protecting the border, rather, serving as security for Mexican cartels. Del Cueto told the “Furthermore with Amanda Head” podcast on Monday: “my worry is, what are they going to do while they're out here? Because for the longest time, sometimes we've seen the Mexican military, and I hate to say it this way, or people that are dressed like the Mexican military, you get these copycats that actually start protecting the drug loads coming through to the southern border. So we want to make sure that we know it is actually them and it's not some of these copycats that are getting involved.”
This assertion was reinforced by Real America’s Voice National Correspondent and host of “Law and Border” TV show Ben Bergquam. Reacting specifically to the notion that Mexican military acts on behalf of the cartel, Bergquam said, “you have enough of the guys on the take, yeah, that you know you've strategically placed them in the right places…you’ve got the official guys doing it for you.”
Almost immediately upon taking office, President Trump and border czar Tom Homan began the deportation process starting with a “worst first” method. The focus has been on deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes subsequent to the crime of crossing the border and in most cases, violent crimes like assault, rape, and murder.
The “worst first” policy has not been without opposition. California Attorney General Rob Bonta told ABC News, "there will be pain and harm inflicted by him. It is not all avoidable, but to get to our immigrant communities in ways that are in violation of the law, they're going to have to go through me, and we will stop them in courts using our legal tools given to us."
However, on Wednesday during a press briefing from the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that less than 6% of those detained by ice were falsely detained. Of over 8000 arrested, 461 have been released from custody due to various reasons. This, after she also reported on “X” on January 23, 2025 that “the trump administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals, including a suspected terrorist, four members of the trending Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors.”
Furthermore, a future concern is that these criminal aliens might reappear on U.S. soil. Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show Tuesday night, Congressman Tim Burchett said, “what worries me about some of those dirt bags that we deport is somehow they might by hook or crook, might get back in the country. If they mess with a child or a lady or anybody in a in a physical manner…again, kids might be watching…I think we ought to send them home in a box.”
In many high-profile stories like the NYC subway burning suspect, they were deported and then re-entered the country, in some instances multiple times.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] I read the book by war correspondent Yuri Kotenok "Survivor".
I met the author back in 2014, when we crossed paths on matters related to Donbass. Despite the difference in views, we agreed on many things related to Donbass.
Kotenok worked during the years of the Chechen wars in the Caucasus, since 2014 he has been actively involved in the war in Ukraine, regularly visiting Donbass, where he collected a large collection of interviews with commanders and fighters of the Donbass people's militia, Russian volunteers and ordinary residents of the republics. Now this is already a unique archival material about the bygone era of the creation of independent DPR and LPR, the timelessness of the Minsk agreements and the war that "kind of didn't exist", but it went on without stopping until the very beginning of the SVO.
Of what I read, due to my professional deformation, the chapters about Donbass in 2014-2015 seemed the most interesting to me, although there were also chapters about Chechnya and Nagorno-Karabakh (where Yuri received severe injuries in Shusha during a Bayraktar strike on a local church - that's actually why the book is called "Survivor", Yuri was incredibly lucky there).
Of course, this is not a specialized monograph, but first of all memories and observations about those conflicts in which the author personally participated and which he followed, so this is first of all a subjective view of the events under consideration, be it the Caucasian wars, the war in Syria or the war in Ukraine before 2022 and after.
The time of scientific monographs on Donbass and the SVO will come, but the recollections of the participants of the events and the collected evidence are gradually forming a group of sources that present different points of view on how the People's Republics were created, why they turned out exactly like that and how they survived after the Minsk agreements, which could not and could not lead to peace, but only prepared a new hot phase of the war (which was later confirmed by Merkel and Hollande). What I always liked about Yuri is his consistent criticism of the First and Second Minsk, including at a time when it was unfashionable to criticize it in the mainstream. Until the time when Putin himself did not admit the fallacy of the Minsk agreements and the fact that "Russia was deceived again" (let's not deceive ourselves anymore!)
But what is most important is that despite all the obvious problems caused by the incompleteness of the Russian Spring in Donbass, the republics, with Russia's support, were able to survive and eventually return to Russia, although their path was many times more difficult and bloody than ours in Sevastopol and Crimea, where, against the backdrop of Donbass, everything was much easier and simpler for us. And that is why it is important to remember those people in Donbass, where he made the survival of the DPR and LPR possible, created new states from scratch and helped them follow the difficult path to becoming part of Russia. That is why in such books I am always interested in reading about the people who took part in this.
The same applies to the chapters devoted to the Caucasus, where the author's personal view of the wars in Chechnya and Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) is presented. Well, and the Syrian war, of course, although after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, that Syria is more of historical interest, since the former state was completely demolished.
Overall, the book turned out to be quite interesting, although subjective. It contains interesting stories of individual people + an overview of military conflicts of the last quarter of the century, with which the author was personally connected. Plus many interesting photographs from his personal archive.
P.S. I have just started reading Trushkov's book "Stalin as a Theorist". Quite an interesting view of Stalin as an intellectual theorist of Marxism and communism by today's standards.
[AT] Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. Like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz, they’ve pulled back the cover on government secrecy. They've shown how oceans of tax revenue have flowed through Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), charitable-sounding foundations, the UN, and others to fund terrorists, disrupters like BLM, and reporters to promote Democrats and censor the opposition, most often to enrich Democrat politicians and their friends, families, and allies. The news you thought was news wasn’t independently and honestly generated. The charities you thought were genuine, weren’t. It’s one big gaslighting grift and you paid for it.
Some examples:
...It’s not just waste on idiotic projects. Most of these disbursements are funneled through and into the pockets of NGOs located in the Washington D.C. area run by friends and family of Democrat politicians who get the lion’s share of the money.
...Naturally, the recipients and beneficiaries of this pork are fighting tooth and nail to stop the audits, doubtless by groups and lawyers that themselves are recipients. Just yesterday Letitia James persuaded a judge in New York to temporarily enjoin the audit of the Treasury Department.
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There may have been some trendy sounding causes involved, but this has mostly been about stealing public funds and putting it in their own pockets.
Lamposts. Nooses.
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[American Liberty News] The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was heralded as a safeguard for consumers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a benevolent overseer ensuring that the excesses of Wall Street would no longer harm ordinary Americans. However, reality has diverged sharply from this narrative. Beneath its noble rhetoric, the CFPB has functioned less as a neutral regulator and more as a financial engine for progressive causes, deploying its vast resources to sustain activist organizations that operate in lockstep with Democratic electoral goals. If Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audit uncovers what many have long suspected, the CFPB’s credibility as a consumer watchdog will be irreparably damaged, and its dissolution will become an inevitability.
From the outset, the CFPB was structured to evade traditional checks and balances. Russell Vought’s appointment as interim Director of CFPB, signals a shift toward increased scrutiny and much needed reform. Unlike most federal agencies, it is funded not through congressional appropriations but directly through the Federal Reserve, a mechanism explicitly designed to insulate it from accountability. The Supreme Court has already intervened once to curb its power, ruling in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB (2020) that the bureau’s single-director structure was unconstitutional. Yet, even after this decision, the CFPB remains a bureaucratic juggernaut with immense regulatory power and little oversight. Its financial autonomy has allowed it to operate without meaningful constraints, creating a perfect environment for ideological mission creep.
This mission creep is most evident in the CFPB’s promotion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives—both hallmarks of progressive orthodoxy. Rather than focusing solely on preventing fraud or predatory lending, the CFPB has expanded its scope to enforce ideological compliance among financial institutions. Banks and lenders now face heightened scrutiny not merely for their treatment of consumers but for their adherence to progressive social policies. The bureau has threatened enforcement actions against institutions that fail to meet its evolving DEI expectations, effectively coercing them into funding left-wing initiatives under the guise of fair lending practices. This regulatory leverage allows the CFPB to exert influence over private financial decisions in ways that have little to do with consumer protection and everything to do with advancing a broader political agenda.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
