Would you expect a high-ranking United States government official to respond to a Mexican woman who took to social media to tell U.S. bureaucrats to stick her U.S. visa up their backsides?
That’s exactly what Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau did on Thursday.
Let’s back up a bit (pardon the pun).
Earlier this week, Melissa Cornejo, a member of the state council of the ruling Morena party in Jalisco, shared a photo to the X social media site of a man holding up a Mexican flag in front of a burnt-out vehicle in Los Angeles, where protests against immigration raids have been held in recent days.
Painted on the side of the car in capital letters was the message “FUCK ICE” — ICE being the acronym of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which carries out raids targeting undocumented immigrants.
Above the photo, Cornejo wrote: “They’re going to take away visas from those who share…”
She was apparently alluding to the possibility that she could be stripped of her U.S. visa for sharing a photo of a defiant protester. However, Cornejo made it clear she didn’t care about that (if in fact she actually has a U.S. tourist visa, that is).
“Viva la raza y metánse mi visa por el culo,” she wrote in her post, which is now only visible to approved followers, but which reportedly attracted thousands of likes and hundreds of comments.
Translation: “Long live Mexicans in the U.S. and stick my visa up your ass.”
If Cornejo was looking for a Trump administration official to take her bait, she got exactly what she wanted.
“I can’t stick your visa there, but I can inform you that I personally gave the order to cancel it after seeing this vulgar post,” Landau responded using his official deputy secretary of state X account.
“And it shouldn’t surprise you what they answered: that you don’t even have a valid visa to cancel,” he wrote.
“How easy it is to talk about your disdain for ‘my visa’ on social media when you don’t have one. Those who glorify violence and the defiance of legitimate authorities and public order (‘FU** ICE’) are in no way welcome in our country,” Landau wrote before signing off with his name and official title.
He reposted his original post to his personal account.
By mid-afternoon, the deputy secretary of state and former ambassador to Mexico had attracted a response from Denise Dresser, a well-known Mexican political scientist and writer.
“With all due respect, Ambassador Landau, this is conduct unbecoming of a U.S. government official,” she wrote.
Landau — who met with President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City on Wednesday — got a mixed reaction to his post from other X users, with comments including “that’s right Mr. Secretary”; “excellent response”; “fascist”; and “don’t you think it’s totally extremist to cancel a visa for expressing an opinion on social media?”
Mexico News Daily
Landau is typical of what happens when a passel of inexperienced puerile fools pretend to run a government. Good Luck up there….from Acapulco.
Oh you mean like what happens in Mexico?
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Wow.
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And now the Trump Morality Police
Free speech? What happened to Patrick Henry: “I disagree with what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
In case you weren’t paying attention for the last few years, free speech and freedom of expression have gone into a coma in the West. Just look at the legislation and the lawfare. And freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach on social media. If people weren’t so easily manipulated into supporting one party or another they might actually see how effective the divide and conquer agenda has gone in distracting everyone while our freedoms are evaporating.
Well said. Personally, I’ve noticed more freedom of speech on social media lately compared to during the Biden administration. There seems to be less cancel culture, and people can now talk more openly about topics like COVID, vaccines, and other previously sensitive issues without immediately getting suspended.
That said, how governments respond to what’s posted is a different matter. In my view, it’s better to let people speak freely—even if it’s risky for them—than to censor their words before they’re even shared.
I’m also deeply concerned about the growing wave of censorship, especially in the EU, where we’re seeing people arrested for so-called “hate speech” or for expressing views that don’t align with state-defined standards of morality or behavior.
What a snowflake response from landau.
MAGAits are so thin skinned and such crybabies.
She got what she requested. What’s the complaint?
Hey liberal geniuses, please keep this up. This is a great look for the next U.S. election.
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Care to speculate on what would happen if we expats rioted in the streets here and waved the U.S. flag in the faces of the Mexican police?
Libs, please try this and get back to us with the results.
Dear Maggat thug… stick it. Just remember, Mexicans didn’t move, the border did.
We protested in Chapala and the police did nothing! They hate Trump as much as we do!!🤪
Mr. Daniel,
Please please please wave an American flag in front of a member of the Guarida Nacional and shout “Ch**nga *u **ta ma***!” It is your patriotic duty, for the benefit of all of us expats here in Mexico. You would be our hero!! And do it naked. I think that would be most effective in showing the world who we are as Americans. Because, after all, we are all brothers and sisters in the struggle to retain our sovereignty over Greenland. And needles, California.
Ah yes…yet another vengeful, vulgarian mediocrity working in the the Trump/MAGA house. Such is the excellence of US federal civil servants these days.
Absolutely zero surprise there.
so the proper response of Secretary Landau hurt your feelings? poor Mexico saddled with some touchy feely compatriots. When he was Ambassador he went out of this way to know and uderstand Mexico. With this in mind as we said as kids “iguanas ranas” we do not have to put up with crude insults from the Morena chusma
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Why no pearl clutching condemnation of a Morenista from Jalisco posting a vulgar stick anything up your a$$ comment, too? Bias much?
I have never seen so many people, That are totally against the US,nor the President, when in Mexico if you are in illegal in this Country, and you get caught, there is no due process your are gone , deported immediately. But in you pea brain minds the US can’t do the same thing. Talk about hypocrites.
You really should check your grammar before posting. Your statement makes no sense.
👍 Many Americans simply don’t realize that other countries are stricter. Others are aware, but they justify the double standard by saying the U.S. is wealthier and more capable of absorbing newcomers—or that it bears a moral obligation due to past foreign policy.
Given how Mexico and other countries will treat illegal immigrants with instant deportation, it’s fair to ask why the U.S. is held to a different standard, even by its own citizens.
Why hasn’t the Mexican President and the entire diplomatic corps taken decisive action to halt the desecration of the Mexican flag? It is utterly outrageous that non-Mexican professional agitators and protesters are allowed to disrespect the Mexican flag, deeply offending Mexico and sending a dangerously misleading message.
The Mexican flag is not just a symbol; it embodies Mexico’s rich indigenous heritage. Featuring the coat of arms with a golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a fanged serpent, it represents the founding of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City.
The green field signifies hope and marks our independence from Spain.
The white field represents purity and is historically associated with the Roman Catholic Church.
The red field pays tribute to the blood shed by Mexicans in the fight for independence.
We must urgently ask:
What connection do these professional agitators have with Mexico?
Why are the so-called “halcones” (falcons) possibly being deployed by Mexico City to the U.S. to incite domestic terrorism on American soil?
This terrorism is akin to how the Mexican government wielded the “HALCONES” during the 1968 Student Massacre.
The U.S. cannot tolerate this domestic terrorism.
For your information, the United States is a powerful country comprised of civilized individuals and Vetted immigrants from all over the world, who came to America to work hard, create an educated family, build wealth, and contribute to the U.S.
Here in the U.S. The Laws are respected, but your limited mind does not let you know what is happening.
We want out of the U.S. the 11 Million Unvetted immigrants that forced their way into the U.S. in the past two-three years, primarily the criminals, rapists, pedophiles, scammers, terrorists, etc., from Mexico, Central, South America, China, Korea, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, etc.
The U.S. is a civilized Country. We follow a protocol: if you wish to come to the U.S., you must be vetted. If you do not follow the protocol, WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE IN THE U.S.
Venezuela sent all their crazy, sick pedophile inmates to America, and the Middle East, Korea, and China sent their terrorists to create chaos. WE DO NOT WANT YOU.
We want the working immigrants who have been here for a long time, working and making good U.S. citizens; we do not wish to have Criminals.
I think the vast majority of Americans—probably 90%—are pro-immigration. No matter where they fall politically, most people recognize that immigration has been and continues to be a strength for this country.
The divide isn’t about whether we should allow immigration—it’s about how. Most Americans want it to be done legally, through a process that is organized and controlled. That’s where the breakdown happens: one (very vocal) side wants to let nearly everyone in regardless of how they arrive, while the other side wants a lawful, orderly system that respects national sovereignty and due process.
Where both sides can agree is that our immigration system is broken, outdated, slow, inconsistent, and increasingly unable to meet the country’s economic and humanitarian needs. There’s common ground here, if we’re willing to focus on solutions rather than ideology.