Trump 2.0: What’s in it for Mexico? MND interviews Larry Rubin

The accomplishment successful Mexico of the caller United States ambassador volition assistance the Mexican authorities “understand what the priorities are” for the Trump administration, according to Larry Rubin, president of the American Society of Mexico (AmSoc).

Mexico News Daily precocious spoke to Rubin, a dual Mexican and United States national who is simply a typical of the U.S. Republican Party successful Mexico.

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He said helium was “very optimistic” astir the accomplishment of Ronald D. Johnson, a erstwhile ambassador to El Salvador who United States President Donald Trump nominated arsenic his prime for ambassador to Mexico. Johnson is presently awaiting confirmation of his assignment by the U.S. Senate.

“We truly judge that his enactment successful Mexico volition beryllium important connected galore fronts,” Rubin told MND.

Although Trump has made it wide helium wants enactment from Mexico to stem the travel of drugs and migrants to the United States, the AmSoc president believes that Johnson volition supply adjacent greater clarity to the Sheinbaum medication astir the priorities of the U.S. government.

On migration power and the combat against transnational cause trafficking, “definitely Mexico and the U.S. request to enactment together,” Rubin said.

Johnson could beryllium a important intermediary betwixt Trump and the Sheinbaum administration, conveying to Mexican officials what needs to beryllium done to appease the U.S. president and debar — oregon person lifted — punitive measures specified arsenic the imposition of tariffs connected Mexican exports, for example.

“The Trump medication has been precise wide that they don’t expect thing but results, and truthful the clip erstwhile Mexico could get distant with beauteous property releases, and forums and discussions and inviting ministers to travel down and speech astir it oregon spell up to D.C. and speech astir it is agelong gone,” Rubin said successful an interrogation earlier the extradition of 29 Mexican cartel figures to the United States.

“Now it’s astir enactment … and that’s what we get with this [U.S] administration,” helium said.

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Rubin stressed that enactment against narcotics and amerciable migration is besides “good for Mexico,” and said helium had spoken astir that to “different stakeholders” successful the Mexican government.

It’s not astir doing “a favor” for the U.S., but astir “what’s successful it for Mexico,” helium said, referring to benefits specified arsenic an improved home information situation.

“Working together, the U.S. and Mexico, determination truly is an accidental for some countries to benefit,” Rubin said.

With respect to Mexican cause cartels — six of which were precocious designated arsenic overseas violent organizations by the U.S. government — the AmSoc president said that the transgression organizations “have tentacles each implicit the U.S.”

“If you privation to get escaped of those tentacles you person to spell to the root and the root is these Mexican cause lords successful Mexico,” said Rubin, who compared high-ranking cartel operatives successful the U.S. to “small-time managers.”

Rubin: Stopping travel of weapons to Mexico not a precedence for US 

Asked whether helium believed the United States would instrumentality meaningful enactment to stem the travel of weapons to Mexico, Rubin responded that helium didn’t judge it was “a precedence for the U.S. government.”

“And I don’t spot it becoming a priority,” helium added.

Over 2 cardinal amerciable firearms are estimated to person entered Mexico since 2013. (Adolfo Vladimir/Cuartoscuro)

The United States is the primary root of weapons for cartels, but Rubin said that Mexican transgression organizations besides get weapons from different parts of the satellite and could trust connected those connections if the illicit proviso from the U.S. dries up.

“They don’t request the U.S. to get their weapons,” helium said.

Rubin said that “the mode Mexico tin power amerciable weapons from coming successful is truly securing their borders.”

“At the extremity of the time who’s liable for thing coming into Mexico is not the U.S., it’s Mexico,” helium said, adding that the U.S. is besides “responsible for closing down its borders” to halt the introduction of drugs and migrants.

The AmSoc president advocated greater engagement with Texas connected the arms trafficking issue, noting that astir 70% of the Mexico-U.S. borderline runs done the Lone Star state.

“I deliberation these issues tin beryllium discussed … authorities to country, much than astatine a national level,” helium said, adding that helium believed Texas Governor Greg Abbott was “open” to specified talks.

USMCA is ‘a precise invaluable instrument’ 

Rubin said that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the escaped commercialized pact that superseded NAFTA successful 2020, is “a precise invaluable instrument, not lone for Mexico but besides for the U.S. and Canada.”

The statement has created opportunities for tiny companies arsenic good arsenic ample corporations “to look beyond their section markets,” helium said up of the 2026 reappraisal of the pact.

The USMCA has brought Mexico and the United States unneurotic arsenic commercialized partners similar ne'er before. (Omar Martínez/Cuartoscuro)

As an hold of the economical integration successful North America, Rubin said that the United States could question to alleviate shortages successful definite sectors, specified arsenic nursing and trucking, by hiring Mexican workers.

There are “tons of opportunities to assistance the U.S. system by bringing successful ineligible workers” who tin beryllium “vetted” by authorities earlier entry, helium said, adding that expanding ineligible pathways for migration is thing that the Trump medication volition apt look at.

Rubin sees accrued US migration to Mexico arsenic a positive 

“We’re excited to spot these increasing numbers due to the fact that we bash judge that makes our societies adjacent much integrated,” Rubin said, referring to the accrued beingness of Americans successful Mexico.

He said that immoderate 2 cardinal U.S. citizens presently unrecorded successful Mexico.

“Obviously these individuals are spending wealth successful Mexico, which is fantastic — they’re supporting section economies, which is very, precise important,” said Rubin, who successful his relation astatine AmSoc represents the U.S. assemblage successful Mexico arsenic good arsenic U.S. companies and NGOs.

Due to the ample fig of Mexican-Americans successful the U.S., and the increasing fig of U.S. citizens surviving successful Mexico, helium predicted the emergence connected some sides of the borderline of much leaders from those communities successful politics, concern and different fields.

Mexico News Daily asked the AmSoc president whether helium had detected immoderate summation successful anti-American sentiment owed to existent tensions successful the Mexico-U.S. relationship, including those related to Trump’s wide deportation plan.

“Fortunately I person not picked up thing yet. Of course, we person to beryllium vigilant due to the fact that the tide could turn,” helium said.

“But portion of what we effort to bash astatine the American nine is beforehand the information that our 2 countries are stronger together.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])

Peter and Mexico News Daily CEO Travis Bembenek spoke to Larry Rubin successful February