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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. One of President Trump's top advisors, Stephen Miller, made a surprising admission this week.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Miller, privately worried about imposing overly aggressive tariffs on Mexico because it could imperil the work that Mexico is doing to

apprehend migrants traveling north to our southern border. That's pretty striking. Understood

correctly, it's actually an acknowledgement that Mexico already is cracking down on migration

due to an arrangement secured by, you guessed it, President Biden.

That badly undermines some of Trump's biggest claims about immigration, tariffs, Mexico, and a lot more.

So today we're going to look at what Mexico has actually been doing on immigration and why it

undercuts Trump's scams on tariffs and on his supposed huge recent victory over Mexico.

We have a great guest to do that with, Adam Isaacson, a very sharp expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an advocacy group.

Thanks for coming on, Adam.

Thank you, Greg. It's great to be on with you.

Okay, so Trump appeared ready to be on with you.

Okay, so Trump appeared ready to go forward with 25% tariffs on Mexico, but he's temporarily held back.

I want to read from this Wall Street Journal piece.

The key thing is buried in there, but it's highly significant.

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