If you are planning a trip south of the border, read this post first.

 

Truckers angry in Mexico

By Silvio Canto, Jr. www.americanthinker.com

Back in the 1980s, I had a chance to work and live in Mexico City. One of our favorite weekend activities was to drive in the rural areas and visit those old churches. It's amazing how nice they were. Another thing is that I was pretty impressed with Mexico's highways. It was very practical to get around as long as you remember that the 90 speed limit was kilometers not miles!

It's not easy to get around Mexico these days and it's not a problem with the roads. It's the truckers, who are tired of insecurity and extortion and want better prices for their goods.

So far, the so-called national strike is having some economic impact. One of the biggest concerns is the impact on ports, as we see in this story:

According to foreign media reports, Mexico will experience a nationwide strike on November 24 local time. Organized by the National Transport Association of Mexico (ANTAC) and the Mexican Farmer Agriculture Movement (MAC), transport workers and farmers will participate in the protests.

It is understood that specific measures for this strike include: setting up roadblocks on multiple major traffic arteries, specifically targeting and blocking cargo transportation, while also announcing plans to take “occupation of customs” actions to pressure the authorities.

As a core hub for Chinese goods entering Mexico, the operational status of the Port of Manzanillo is crucial for China-Mexico cross-border trade.

This port handles approximately 4,000 truck transport demands daily, undertaking 42% of the China-Mexico sea freight volume, and is a “lifeline” for inventory preparation for many cross-border sellers.

However, if this strike action is fully implemented, the Port of Manzanillo will face impacts:

On one hand, the inland freight channels connecting to the port may be severed, preventing efficient distribution of arrived goods and leading to port congestion and paralysis; furthermore, the China-Mexico direct shipping capacity has been unstable this year, leading some Chinese cargo to use the “US-Mexico transit” as an alternative route.

This strike plan may include blocking the US-Mexico border, subjecting sellers’ inventory plans to a double blow of “main channel congestion + backup channel disruption”.

It is worth mentioning that multiple strike incidents have already occurred in Mexico since late October.

I spoke with a friend in Mexico City and everyone is naturally worried. Every morning thousands of trucks deliver vegetables and more to major distribution centers in the city. Then they load up trucks and move it to thousands of markets. My friend is concerned that food will spoil and shortages will occur.

Where is the government? Why aren't they doing something such as sitting down with the protest leaders for some negotiations? One of the contentious issues is that the government is behind in their payments to the truckers. The Sheinbaum administration has promised to start the payments and calls for patience. One of the protest leaders was on TV and I heard him say something like "we got oil for Cuba but no money for Mexican truckers." Makes sense to the truckers blocking the highways.

My friend added a political commentary. He feels that the government is weak. He said that previous presidents would have intervened or done something weeks ago. He can't believe that we've reached this far. My friend is not a fan of President Sheinbaum, but he's got a point.

So eat your turkey up here, enjoy your family, and stay off the Mexican highways if you were planning to drive south.

 

One of the most egregious horrific consequences of illegal immigration - is the theft of citizen personal Identity!

 

NYT lionizes illegal who stole innocent farmer's identity and left him to pay the illegal's taxes

By Monica Showalter www.americanthinker.com

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/nyt_lionizes_illegal_who_stole_innocent_farmer_s_identity_and_left_him_to_pay_the_illegal_s_taxes.html

The New York Times is famous for writing killer-victim stories as amoral 'lives intersect' stories. It was almost a running joke. Hardened killer meets teen girl and conducts torture-murder; it's all a matter of lives intersecting.

They're still doing that.

This time they came up with a doozy in telling the glurgy story of an illegal who stole an innocent Minnesota farmer's identity and upended his entire life, leaving him to pay the tax bills, watching his own hard-earned money get garnished away by the IRS. The illegal also left a chain of other destructive problems for the farmer, such as drunk-driving convictions, bad driving that killed a man, a suspended driver's license, and crappy credit scores, all of which were attached to the farmer's good name instead of his own.

But the Times likes to gloss it over and tell us the illegal was really a good guy. They started out with a dreamily grand and morally neutral "things happen" headline:

Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.

Who the hell cares what kind of price an identity thief in this country pays for his own crimes? The story is that the farmer was robbed of his good name and hard-earned money through no fault of his own.

But we get lots of treacle from the Times about the illegal:

He had lived under enough names and numbers in the United States that they started to blur together. Vincent Trujillo. Reynaldo Guerra. And then, for more than a decade, Daniel Kluver — the name he used until he could barely remember what it felt like to exist as himself: Romeo Pérez-Bravo, 42, a Guatemalan immigrant who had spent most of his adult life working under borrowed identities.

By the start of 2025, he was preparing for another graveyard shift in St. Joseph, Mo., lacing his work boots in the darkness of his drafty rental while his wife and five children slept. He packed their school lunches for the next day, drove to the dog-food factory and gathered with his co-workers to say their nightly prayer. Then he swiped his badge to begin another 12-hour shift as Daniel Kluver, sinking deeper into an identity that wasn’t really his own.

 “Daniel?” his boss always shouted, taking attendance before they went out to their lines.

“Here,” he said.

Perez-Bravo had come to the United States for the first time at 16 to help earn money for his family, traveling alone to join his father in Marshall, Minn. He hiked out of the Guatemalan highlands, rode atop a freight train for three weeks across Mexico, nearly drowned in the Rio Grande and took a Greyhound to Middle America, where life somehow felt harder. He slept on a couch in his father’s apartment and enrolled in high school despite speaking almost no English. Then he began to look for a job, but no one would hire an underage worker without papers.

Borrowed identities? No, they were stolen identities and his behavior while using those ''borrowed" identities was to leave a string of rubble and ruin for the people whose good names got besmirched with his long, consistent record of irresponsible behavior.

Multiple drunk driving convictions and "other minor offenses," the Times explained as if drunk driving were a small thing. The illegal couldn't seem to stay away from committing crimes and doing enough of them to get caught for some of them. 

Three deportations. A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by a family whose grandfather had been killed by his irresponsible driving with the innocent farmer named as the defendant.

Amid all these problems created for the farmer -- truly, a lifetime of irresponsible acts the illegal couldn't stop doing on his "borrowed" identity, the farmer, Dan Kluver, had to spend mountains of time trying to plead with the IRS that his identity had been stolen and he wasn't the person earning all the money from the dog food factory in Missouri. They didn't care. They put him on hold when he tried to call them and in the end a judge said he had to pay the illegal's taxes until he could 'prove' he was a victim of identity theft. The onus was on him. And he had to reason with these bureaucrats constantly, all for the crimes of someone else:

They spent the next decade living with the consequences — annual tax audits, budgets that never added up, whispered arguments after the kids went to bed. Kluver kept calling government numbers and waiting on hold until he eventually resigned himself to a payment plan. He agreed to send the I.R.S. $150 each month, which he’d done more than 35 times. “I can’t keep obsessing over this and getting nowhere,” he told Kristy. “I need to think about something else.”

Meanwhile, the lefty media and leftist pols kept calling illegal immigration a 'victimless crime' as churchmen ran around at protests with signs like 'Justice for Immigrants.' 

As for the farmer Kluver:

But what bothered him lately was the idea he kept hearing from liberal politicians and even some relatives in Minnesota — that illegal immigration was mostly harmless, a victimless crime. His name was no longer his own. His debts were spiraling. He was still cutting checks to the I.R.S. for $150 each month, and the government said that debt was his to pay until a court determined otherwise. Even if the other Dan Kluver seemed to be a decent man — working, raising a family, going to church — his patience had limits.

Meanwhile, the illegal paid lip service to admitting the havoc he wrought with the other man's life, but excused himself as any irresponsible person would do as 'got-to-get-by.'

After the lawmen caught him, the scenario went like this:

His lawyer had advised him that he was essentially out of options. She had managed to postpone his case until at least January 2026, but he faced a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison followed by deportation to Guatemala. During the initial court hearings, Perez-Bravo had listened to the prosecution talk about the other Dan Kluver — a loyal employee, a devoted father, a debtor sending monthly payments, a victim of a broken system.

“He sounds like me — a good worker,” Perez-Bravo told his wife, one day last month. “I don’t want to mess things up for anyone. I just want to work. It makes me crazy with no job. How many hours can I sit and pray?”

Oh how pitiful, he "had" to listen to the court describe the victim impact.

Well, he did 'mess things up' for an innocent person. Just wants to work, do the bad things he does on the side, too, and too bad about the consequences for the other guy. Don't his needs come first?

It's disgusting. And the Times goes to great ends to make him some kind of sympathetic figure, despite his actual behavior beyond the identity theft that caused those lives to 'intersect.' He's hard-working. He's a 'father.' He goes to church. His community loves him. He's like the farmer actually.

Yet one was a dirtbag, and the other was utterly blameless. The Times doesn't see any difference, giving both players equal weight in its moral-equivalance story.

Well, it isn't working. The overwhelming sympathy is with the farmer, not the illegal who belongs in jail and out of this country for the rest of his dishonest life. 

 

Mexico President Sheinbaum attacks Media 'TV Azteca' for being critical of her administration and will face commercial consequences.

 

Mexico's Sheinbaum goes 'Hugo Chavez' on dissident TV station and its owner

By Monica Showalter www.americanthinker.com

Is Mexico's la presidenta, Claudia Sheinbaum, going Hugo Chavez on us?

Well, consider what she's doing to one of her country's leading television stations, TV Azteca, whose coverage has been critical and whose owner, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, is a well-known libertarian magnate. One way or another, she's threatening to shut it down.

According to Revista Fortuna, a Mexican business publication (there's nothing about this in English about this, so here is a Google Translate of the opener):

It was only a matter of time. Claudia Sheinbaum decided to abandon restraint and lashed out at TV Azteca's reporting style since she became president. According to her, the Mexican media outlet has become critical of her administration, but with a strong incitement of hatred in society. After analyzing the situation, Sheinbaum warned that Ricardo Salinas Pliego's network could face commercial consequences if it continues with an editorial line openly critical of her administration.

 "I think it's very counterproductive. Very counterproductive. They are trying to pursue a line, not only against the President in a very offensive way, by the way, and against the Government of Mexico, what we represent, the party we come from, but a line of great hatred, exacerbating hatred…" Sheinbaum began.

 Along the same lines, the Mexican president stated: “They don't understand that the people of Mexico aren't like that, nor are young people, because they're supposedly trying to reach a youth sector and they're not succeeding. There will be young people who don't agree with us, and that's fine, but the majority of young people support the transformation. This information scheme will also generate more and more losses for them, to be honest. We have to see which advertisers are still with the television network, and it's simply the market…”

 That has the eerie sound of Venezuela's crazed dictator, Hugo Chavez, who, once the failures of his socialist regime became clear, began to blame and shut down independent television stations such as RCTV and Globovision in the early aughts. He got away with it, and the stations became either government-controlled zombies, or else history.

Sheinbaum has a very similar problem in that her government is hopelessly corrupted by drug cartels and the public is onto it, enough to engage in violent protests such as happened in Mexico City two weeks ago. That is what Sheinbaum is referring to in the last part of her statement about young people mostly adoring her and her government 'transformation' through socialism. 

Actually, they don't. They'd rather be illegal aliens in the great capitalist hell, the United States, but that option is now closed to them with President Trump's immigration crackdown. That's one reason why they demand results at home now.

And Sheinbaum is now threatening the owner of the television station that dares to cover her failures critically. The owner, Salinas Pliego, whom I used to cover at Forbes in the early aughts and talked with a few times, is a colorful, outspoken, and opinionated billionaire whose libertarian views are very sincere. He's actually a bit like Donald Trump now that I think of it, complete with a somewhat turbulent private life sort of resembling what Trump's was, at least in those years.

Fortuna notes that Sheinbaum accuses him of wanting to be a 2030 presidential candidate, as if that were a crime.

He actually sounds like what Mexico needs, given its moribund establishment and its failure to bring prosperity to its hard-working people.

Salinas Pliego, for his part, is biting back. Fortuna notes (via Google Translate):

Faced with such a statement, Ricardo Salinas Pliego didn't hesitate to respond, asserting that Sheinbaum is trying to bankrupt TV Azteca: “There are more than 190,000 families that depend on my companies, and Mexico is on the verge of becoming a failed state run by a one-party dictatorship disguised as a transformation.”

 In addition, the Mexican magnate reflected: “Are we on the side of the parasites who have never worked and live like monarchs, plundering the country? Or on the side of those of us who do create jobs, who do pay taxes, who do face the music, and who do want a Mexico where crime is fought, not embraced? The government’s only clear project is to get rid of the only adversary who exposes them and keeps them up at night, the only one who isn’t afraid of them and whom they know can kick them out of power.”

Sheinbaum can't stop herself, though. Here's her modern masterplan for shutting down her potential opponent:

Grok Translate:

Marcelo Torres Cofiño accuses Claudia Sheinbaum's government of pressuring TV Azteca following warnings about potential losses of advertisers. He points out that this would be a "modern form of censorship" and a risk to freedom of expression. #TVAzteca

This dictator technique, too:

Grok Translate:

Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum says that businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego defames every day through his social media accounts and his television station. She asks people to investigate how he acquired Tv Azteca and how he obtained ADN40 and whether he was a beneficiary of Fobaproa.

And this:

Grok Translate:

President Sheinbaum says that TV Azteca does not receive official advertising And she says, “they talk about there being censorship…how? if they talk badly about us all day long” And for “talking badly” about them, they decided to withdraw the advertising investment They don’t pay them to badmouth them Just like in the times of PRIist López Portillo

Her denials sound redolent of the Sandinistas  -- and note that she's going after the critical newspaper Reforma, too:

Grok Translate:

Sheinbaum says: "Here, no one censors anyone." And while she says it, Reforma receives an extraordinary inspection and TV Azteca is surrounded as if it were a clandestine factory.

It's probably just a matter of time before she withholds newsprint from Reforma in an old dictator technique. As for TV Azteca, she's going the Democrat-style route of lawfare and deplatforming, trying to pin something trivial on Salinas Pliego in order to stop the critical coverage.

Bloomberg reports that she's going after old tax debts and colluding with creditors trying to sue him -- while trying to bankrupt him in other ways so he can't pay. She's throwing the kitchen sink at him.

It's incredible that this story hasn't been covered anywhere in the English language press, given Mexico's importance to the U.S. Trying to squelch a libertarian surge, to prevent the emergence of another Trump or another Milei is outrageous Chavista playbook behavior. When Hugo shut down RCTV around 2007, a bottom dropped out and a slew of worse things happened. One must hope that this playbook isn't Mexico's model and Salinas can fight back effectively and win.

 

Individuals, groups and agencies opposing DHS/ICE from accomplishing their Constitutional duties and responsibilities must be held accountable for their lawless actions!

 

High School Principal Arrested For Allegedly Plotting To Attack ICE Agents

By  Jennie Taer Nov 20, 2025 DailyWire.com

"Incredibly alarming."

Authorities arrested a high school assistant principal in Virginia on Wednesday after he and his brother allegedly made detailed plans to attack federal immigration agents and other law enforcement officers, according to local reports.

Kempsville High School assistant principal John W. Bennett, 54, is accused of plotting the violence alongside his brother Mark B. Bennett, 59. An off-duty Norfolk police officer overheard the pair discussing their plans as they dined at a local pho restaurant on November 15, according to ABC13, citing court documents.

The brothers were allegedly heard saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were “kidnapping individuals,” while Mark Bennett mentioned plans to fly to Las Vegas to meet with “like-minded individuals” and return with “enforcement ideas and plans.”

Mark had purchased a flight for November 19, authorities later confirmed. He also mentioned recently purchasing an assault rifle because it could fire rounds that could cut through body armor, saying he yearned to “go hunting,” according to the outlet.

John seemingly endorsed the plan and expressed interest in joining his brother on the trip to Vegas, according to the report. Authorities captured the pair at the Norfolk International Airport.

The brothers were each charged with one conspiracy to commit malicious wounding and were granted $25,000 bond on Thursday, according to WAVY. While out of custody, the two must cut contact with each other and wear a GPS tracker.

The assistant principal has worked at the school district since 2009, according to ABC13. He is now on leave, school officials said.

“These allegations of violence against law enforcement, the very ones who protect and serve our communities, are incredibly alarming,” Virginia Beach Police Department Chief Paul W. Neudigate said in a statement.

ICE has faced a 1,000% surge in assaults since President Donald Trump returned to office and commenced a historic deportation operation across the country.

An anti-ICE shooter opened fire on an agency facility in Dallas in September, killing two detainees and himself.

At another North Texas ICE facility, a group of alleged Antifa militants lured agents outside by setting off fireworks on July 4 before spraying bullets in their direction. One of the alleged attackers shot a local police officer in the neck while hiding in the woods.