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“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has clapped back at President-elect Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico,” Fox News reports, “saying she would impose tariffs of her own on the U.S.” Also protesting the tariffs is Mexico’s economy minister Marcelo Ebrard, who has a curious history with American elections.

Ebrard served as mayor of Mexico City from 2006-2012 and mounted a failed campaign for president in 2011. After a stint with the Global Network of Safer Cities, the failed candidate became involved in American politics.

 “How a One-Time Political Star in Mexico Ended Up Campaigning for Clinton,” headlined a November 6, 2016 New Yorker profile. “It was after hearing Donald Trump speak,” Ebrard explained, “that I decided to get much more involved, beyond just giving opinions. The risk represented by el Señor Trump, the things that he says, in particular about Mexico, but in general, too, are like nothing else I’ve encountered.”

According to Ebrard, Trump’s wall “is a publicity scheme,” and “he, like Hitler, is a good communicator.”  Ebrard “decided to get more involved” by getting out the vote for Hillary Clinton. As the New Yorker also noted, Ebrard had “previously worked with Voto Latino, and with other voter-registration and participation groups in California, Arizona, Florida, Chicago, and elsewhere, and he is working with those groups again now.”

A Mexican politician openly participates in an American election, deploying “direct political action” on behalf of open-border Democrat Hillary Clinton. This all went down without any charges of collusion or election interference by American politicians and the establishment media. Safe to say, Mexico would not tolerate such meddling by an American politician.

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected in June but there’s a reason American media paid little attention. In Mexico, the outgoing president signals the successor with a dedazo, and the election is only a formality. This is the same kind of “guided democracy” Democrats have been trying to impose on America, in their quest for a one-party state. Donald Trump spoiled the show and his tariff plan actually shows restraint.

Trump could opt to severely tax or halt the remissions from Mexicans living in the USA, which accounted for a record $63.3 billion in 2023, a 7.6 percent increase from 2022. Remittances now surpass Mexico’s income from tourism, oil exports, and most manufacturing exports. Many of the Mexicans sending remittances are illegally present in the United States. So Trump’s deportation plans have doubtless caught the attention of Claudia Sheinbaum.

She may be Mexico’s first female president, but so far Sheinbaum signals no change in the nation that allows millions of foreign nationals to cross its territory, destined for the USA. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris welcomed them in with no criminal background checks, health records or job prospects. That’s the operation Donald Trump wants to shut down.