TUCKER CARLSON DECLARES MEXICO 'HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER,' SAYS TARIFFS MAY SLOW U.S. ECONOMY BUT ARE NEEDED

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-declares-mexico-hostile-foreign-power-says-tariffs-may-slow-us-1441344

During the opening segment of his Friday night show, Carlson brought up the fact that critics of the tariff plan claim the billions of dollars in additional costs would slow the U.S. economy.

"They're likely right, over time they probably would, but we ought to impose them anyway," said the conservative host. "Not every government policy is a pure economic calculation. When the United States is attacked by a hostile foreign power, it must strike back. And make no mistake, Mexico is a hostile foreign power. For decades, the Mexican government has sent its poor north to our country. That has allowed that country's criminal oligarchy to maintain power and get even richer, but at great expense to us."

Carlson then went on to blame what he described as a "flood of illegal workers" for  having "damaged our communities, ruined our schools, burdened our healthcare system and fractured our national unity" in what he dubbed a "slow-motion attack on this country."