• 小莱卡
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      616 hours ago

      lol thats bullshit, the us simply cannot break trade relations with mexico.

      • queermunist she/her
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        816 hours ago

        Sorry, I should have said “rupture” instead of “break”

        I mean the relationship will rapidly change in ways that are hard to predict, and for the worse. Mexico is already seeking to join BRICS and attracting a lot of Chinese investment, these are antithetical to US interests.

        This could also result in some Jakarta Method bullshit to remove her and install a US puppet to hunt down leftists.

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        Immigration, and particularly the visa program, is a factor of imperialist underdevelopment and dependency. The US vacuums up labor and then those workers send back remittances to their families, but because labor is the superior of capital it never makes up for the loss of labor power. Nevermind the fact that those workers often have their wages stolen and are subject to extremely dangerous working conditions.

        Trump’s coalition seems to have plans to blow this whole relationship up through a denaturalization scheme. Instead of superexploitation of migrant workers, they want to turn people born in the US into noncitizens and use them instead.

        Nightmarish, but it’s hard to see Mexico not pivoting towards the BRICS after that.

    • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      Mexico cowtows the American line; she was only allowed to say this because Biden wasn’t paying attention.

      Once it’s brought to his attention; she’ll never mention Gaza again.