Should foreign governments be allowed to support or fund lawsuits against the US government over its immigration and enforcement policies? US sovereign immunity aside, the very idea of foreigners trying to influence American immigration law through indirect civil suits sounds insane. Why, oh why, should Americans care what Mexico thinks?
To put the issue in context, it's important to understand that the Mexican government has been actively encouraging and enabling mass illegal immigration into the US for decades. This strategy accomplishes a few things simultaneously:
First, the southern border acts as a steam valve for poverty stricken malcontents and criminals. Mexican leaders like to have the option of leaving the door open to citizens crossing illegally into the US en masse because this means less mouths to feed, less strain on social services and less crime for Mexico.
Second, the Mexican economy relies heavily on foreign remittances. Illegals from Mexico enter the US, work under the table, then wire around $64 billion back home every year. Mexico's annual federal welfare programs cost only $57 billion per year. In other words, remittances from migrants in the US are bigger than Mexico's entire welfare budget.
It has become increasingly clear since Donald Trump took office in 2025 that far too many third-world countries are using the US as a cash cow for their own national economies. And, they have been doing this primarily through illegal immigration, or, work visa and refugee loopholes. Without Trump's migrant crackdown, this problem may have never been exposed to the wider public.
Third, mass immigration acts as a destabil
