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| How Mexico works with militants on U.S. soil to foment unrest, illegal immigration | |
| 2026-01-26 | |
More than 60 people gathered in the white brick, two-story building on the west side of Oklahoma City in late May. It was hot, but not because of the Oklahoma weather. America was amid the heated 2024 presidential election. Among other subjects, the group was talking strategy about American politics, but in an unusual place. While they were in Oklahoma, they were in the Mexican consulate. Mexico had a lot to lose if the wrong person won the US presidential election in November. The group included Mexican diplomats from consulates across the United States, including Phoenix, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Orlando, Chicago, Boston and other cities. They had brought guests, many of them activists. Mexican officials had flown in from the Foreign Ministry in Mexico City. Mexican politicians were on hand, too, to offer advice and encouragement to the US-based political activists who had gathered. This would be a conversation about how “to positively influence the country’s [US] policy for the benefit of Mexican communities.” The stated purpose of the meeting was to emphasize “citizen participation and collective action” inside the United States and to “develop a solid plan of action” to fight back against immigration restrictions, specifically those pushed by Donald Trump. Cristina Planter, then director general for North American Political Affairs at the Mexican Foreign Ministry, addressed the group. There was even a message from the Mexican foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, emphasizing the importance of the meeting. This meeting was a foreshadowing of what would become an outrageous Mexican government intrusion into American politics, including a cast of participants selected to influence the election. Among those attending the gathering were activists from across the United States. Some had dual loyalties: they lived in the United States, but they worked for the Mexican government as advisors and even elected members of Parliament. Karina Ruiz, an immigrant rights activist in Arizona and head of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition, was there to emphasize “the importance of voting and knowing local representatives” in the United States. While she lived in the United States and worked as a political activist, she was about to take up a position in the Mexican Senate as a member of the ruling Morena Party. She is the first member of their senate to represent Mexicans living outside of Mexico. Ruiz is a Mexican citizen, having come here illegally as a teen, but she’s been protected by DACA. She had pledged, “Now from this side of the border we are going to create conditions and support the agenda of Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum [the recently elected Mexican president]." Ruiz has led protests in both Arizona and Washington, DC, sometimes wearing a “Citizenship 4 All” headband. *** Had this mixing of Mexican diplomats, elected officials, and American activists plotting political action together in America’s heartland been made public, there would have been howls of protest at Mexico’s meddling in American internal affairs. But they proceeded quietly, behind closed doors. After all, foreign countries are prohibited from interfering in American elections by law and also by conventions of foreign diplomacy. Yet, the consul general of the Mexican Consulate in Oklahoma City and members of the Foreign Ministry sat in and watched the discussion unfold on “collective action” in the United States. *** After Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Mexican government used Migrant TV to beam messages to millions of Mexicans living in the US, such as “Racism, Hate, and Business: The Trumpist Model.” They also ran slick stories about how “the United States Department of Homeland Security has become the main spokesperson for hatred against migrants” and stories about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s “repressive machinery.” The American media failed to report on the Mexican government’s massive interference in American domestic politics. While news reports of Russia buying Facebook ads and running social media campaigns have garnered cries of Russian interference, Mexico’s far wider and more aggressive efforts are ignored. Indeed, Mexico and other foreign actors have become particularly assertive in their involvement in American internal politics at a level that would not be tolerated if the United States were doing the same in their countries. Rather than denouncing this foreign interference, American progressives have embraced it, all in the name of the resistance to Trump. Mexico’s efforts to extend its political reach into America have been going on for decades, aided by the rising flow of illegal immigrants into the country. | |
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