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Aline Corpus contributed reporting from Tijuana Mexico
Three drones dropped explosives on a prosecutor’s office in Tijuana Mexico cartels used drones to attack Mexican security forces in Río Bravo and Mexican officials confiscated 18 drones in Reynosa in October last year
Analysts say the answer is likely in between
Steven Willoughby testified U.S. officials detected 60000 drone flights within 500 meters of the U.S.-Mexico border in the second half of 2024
U.S. officials arrested an American man using a drone to transport 12 packages of methamphetamine from Mexico to San Diego in 2017
Mexican officials are less certain
Canadian attitudes toward the U.S. plummeted from positive to sharply negative
Tearing down a house takes a day rebuilding it takes a year or longer
Destroying something such as USAID is easy rebuilding it takes a long time
Stockemer predicts attacks on minority voting rights in 2026 and 2028
Infringement of rights is evident in executive orders disengaging the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council removing transgender service members and privileging Christianity
The U.S. has already crossed that line ordering Department of Justice investigations into perceived political enemies donors to the Democratic Party and news outlets
Republican coalition may fracture
The courts would likely resist such a move and whether the Trump administration abides by judicial decisions will determine if the fourth step has occurred
Warnings of the fifth step come in Trump's musing of seeking an unconstitutional third term
They propose a simple metric the cost of opposing the government
The administration's offensive has changed how Americans behave forcing them to think twice
A simpler yardstick for measuring democratic collapse comes from Steven Levitsky Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt
He cited an imaginary invasion as a reason even though border crossings are at their lowest point in U.S. history
Trump's attacks constitute a more incremental form of democratic erosion following a six-step theory of incremental autocratization