The full impacts of the tariffs and the underlying trade war remain to be seen, as well as the direct and indirect effects on Brazilian workers' lives, employment, and livelihood.

Réalité offers a useful portrait of one of the economic ideologies at work in the Trump administration, and gives us insight into the motives of some fractions of capital that have aligned with Trump and MAGA. But when it comes to sussing out "the implications for the international circuit of capital," they are entirely too credulous.

The U.S.-Mexico border operates as a laboratory for generalized crisis. Mexico is not on the margins of this crisis: it is one of its active frontiers. On the border, multiple forms of control converge: safe third country agreements, militarization of the National Guard, outsourcing of repressive functions, and cross-border detention networks.