The President's Daily Brief - PDB Afternoon Bulletin | May 13th, 2025: Mayoral Candidate Gunned Down During Live Stream In Mexico & Starmer Declares UK's 'Open Borders Experiment' A Failure

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:  First, Mexico is suffering another blood-soaked election season. The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz who was gunned down Sunday, along with three of her supporters, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We’ll have the details. Later in the show—British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the U.K.’s most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring the country’s “open borders experiment” has failed. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDBfor 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right. Let's get briefed. First up, Mexico is suffering through another violent election season. The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz, who was gunned down on Sunday, along with three of her supporters, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We'll have those details. Later in the show, British Prime Minister Kier Starmor, fails the UK's most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring that the country's open borders experiment has failed. Yeah, open borders. Who would have thought that it's a terrible concept? But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin today in Mexico, where political violence is once again gripping the nation as voters prepare to head to the polls for local

elections on the 1st of June. On Sunday, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally, a mayoral candidate from Mexico's governing party in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz was murdered by gunmen, marking the second assassination of a political candidate in the state ahead of the June 1st election. Candidate Yossaniola Gutierrez, a member of the Morana Party of Mexican President Claudius Scheinbaum, was seen greeting residents in the streets of Texistepec, now flanked by a group of supporters, before some 20 gunshots rang out, sending bystanders scrambling for cover. That's according to a report from CNN.

Gutierrez, her daughter, and three of her supporters were killed in the attack, which also left three others injured. Subsequent reports said that two federal agents were later killed in connection with the incident in another part of Veracruz. President Scheinbaum confirmed the attack during her morning press conference on Monday, but said they had no information yet on the gunman or their motive. The governor of Veracruz issued a statement vowing justice, saying, quote, no position or office is worth a person's life. We'll find those responsible for this cowardly murder. All of the state's power will be present in coming days so that the elections are free and democratic. Gutierrez became the second mayoral candidate killed in Veracruz during the campaign.

Her tragic death comes after candidate Hermann Valencia, also a member of Shinebom's Morena Party, was killed at his campaign headquarters on the 29th of April. The governor of Veracruz said that some 57 local candidates had requested security offered by the state and federal government following that first assassination, though it's unclear if Gutierrez had such protection. It's a large election for Veracruz, with voting set to take place across the state's 212 municipalities on the 1st of June. Locals described a climate of terror, saying that the violence is so bad that residents are reluctant to publicly voice their support out of fear of retribution. Now, Mexico is no stranger to widespread political violence during election seasons, last spring's presidential

and local elections were the bloodiest in Mexican history. Outside of the presidential election, there were races then for both houses of Congress, gubernatorial elections and nine of the country's 32 states, and thousands of mayoral races. In total, roughly 20,000 congressional and local positions were up for grabs, making it the largest election in the country's history. Some third 30 candidates, that's 3-0, 30 candidates were murdered during that 2024 campaign season, while another 11 were kidnapped and nearly 80 candidates faced significant death threats. The violence was not limited to the candidates themselves, with local groups estimating that there were at least 27 other killings of family members, political organizers, and

community leaders linked to political candidates during the election cycle. The focus for cartels tends to be on local elections, particularly candidates for mayor or the state legislature, where they can more easily exert their influence. In some areas of Mexico, the cartels, as you might suspect, wield almost total control. While the Mexican government has done more to bolster the security of local candidates over the past year, Gutierrez's debt shows just how little control federal authorities still have over their electoral process, particularly, in cartel strongholds. One supporter of Gutierrez told NBC News, quote,

we can't continue with the insecurity. We're tired of all of this. This is terrorism, end quote. Well, they're not wrong. All right, coming up next, British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer unveils the UK's most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades.

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the measures will restore control and fairness, telling reporters, quote, we decide who comes to this country. The Home Office estimates the package, based on just eight of its quantifiable policies, could reduce immigration by around 100,000 people annually by 29. But ministers acknowledge the true scale will depend on how quickly employers, universities, and entire industries adapt to the new rules. To understand the scope of the shift, it's worth recalling the numbers. Net migration peaked at a record 900,000 in June of 2003, and stood at 728,000 last year, despite repeated pledges from successive governments to bring that figure down. Starrmer blamed those governments for presiding over what he described as, quote,

open borders experiments, now declaring that era officially over. At the center of the reform package is the scrapping of a Boris Johnson era visa scheme that allowed companies to freely recruit health and social care workers from abroad. Under the new rule, employers must instead prioritize British workers or extend contracts for existing foreign staff already inside the country. The Home Office projects that this change alone will eliminate 7,000 to 8,000 annual arrivals. But the cuts do go much deeper. The skilled worker route, long a gateway for foreign labor, will now require degree-level qualifications, reversing temporary pandemic-eraer relaxations. An estimated 180 occupations will be stripped from the eligibility list. Meanwhile, English language proficiency

requirements will rise, and applicants seeking permanent residency will need to reside in the UK twice as long as before, 10 years instead of five. Costs are also climbing sharply. The immigration skills charge is set to increase by 32%, bringing employer costs to more than $3,000 per foreign worker for small firms and nearly $9,000 for larger businesses. For the higher education sector, the pressure is twofold, a potential new tax on international students and stricter accountability rules requiring 95% to begin their courses and 90% to complete them. Revenue from the tax would be funneled into domestic skills training programs. Ministers are also moving to reinterpret Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights,

which guarantees the right to a family life. The government says the clause has been applied too broadly in immigration cases, and they're now pushing Parliament to vote on a narrower application, a move that could significantly limit family reunification rights. The humanitarian pathways, meanwhile, remain effectively frozen. No new refugee routes will be created, and only a limited pool of UN-recognized refugees will be allowed to apply under existing skilled workers' schemes.

Starrmer has insisted the moves are grounded in principle, not political pressure, saying, quote, I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair, and because it is what I believe in. The language he used was unambiguous. British businesses, Starmor warned, had grown, quote, almost addicted to importing cheap labor rather than training domestic talent. And unless that pattern changes, he cautioned, the country risks becoming an island of strangers. Look, border policies really shouldn't be that difficult to comprehend. We've said this before on the PDB.

If you don't have secure borders, if you don't know who's coming and going from your country, if you have essentially an open border policy, then really you're not a country. You're just a spot on the map. Every nation's first responsibility is to its citizens to provide for and safeguard the security of its citizens, the economic and physical security. If you don't have border security and immigration policies that prioritize your own citizens, then as a nation, you're failing in your primary responsibility. That's not rocket science. And that, my friends, is the PDB afternoon bulletin for Tuesday, the 13th of May. If you have any

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