President Obama nominated Roberta Jacobson to be the next Ambassador to Mexico Monday. But while her position will deal with foreign affairs, its her positions on domestic policy that have caught the most attention.
As pointed out by IJ Review, Jacobson is an outspoken advocate for amnesty and gun control, even going so far as to link gun rights in the U.S. to the drug cartel in Mexico.
“[T]here are two domestic issues, which, if moved, will make a huge difference in our foreign policy… One, obviously, is comprehensive immigration reform. If that gets passed, which I’m very optimistic about and I know the president is for this year, that’s going to be enormous, very positive,” Jacobson said in a 2013 interview with the Brown Daily Herald.
Her reasoning is that if the U.S. adopts amnesty for illegal immigrants, thousands of people will stop crossing the border. This theory defies historical logic, since the 1986 amnesty did nothing to prevent the current crisis.
“But the second [domestic issue] is if we can do anything on gun control, which we have not been able to do or even really debate in years. And Mexico, like Central America and the Caribbean, has been very critical of the flow of illicit guns to their countries,” Jacobson continued in the Herald interview.
During the interview, she did not mention the missing weapons the U.S. sold to the Mexican military, or Obama’s “Fast and Furious” program, both of which have actually armed the drug cartel.
