November 12, 2020, 10:59 am
More than 3 million people have viewed a TikTok video, since it launched Monday, showing a great moment in U.S.-Mexico relations: A U.S. Border Patrol agent appearing to buy tamales from a Mexican vendor through a section of border wall in Tijuana.
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The video, from TikToker @soytijuana664, shows the exchange from the Mexican side of the border.
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The U.S.-Mexico border has been talked about extensively since President Donald Trump made it a central campaign issue in the 2016 election. Talk of building a wall (and making Mexico pay for it) punctuated what now appears to be a one-term Trump presidency coming to a close. It appears that at least one section of border wall fencing can’t keep the deliciousness of tamales hecho en Mexico from crossing into the U.S.
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As the Daily Dot reported Wednesday, the vendor tells the person on the American side of the fence, who appears to be in a Border Patrol uniform alongside a vehicle with Border Patrol markings, “If you don’t like them you don’t have to pay me, taste them first.”
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Several commenters on Twitter applauded the diplomacy through food, with Laura Martinez declaring, “Binational relations have been restored.”
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It’s also getting some play via the #MexicanPower hashtag, with one observer exclaiming, in Spanish, “After the triumph of #JoeBiden the border looks different. They even sell tamales to the #BorderPatrol.”
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The Border Report article that shared the video on Tuesday said, “It’s not clear whether the unidentified agent violated any laws, although a CBP official called the action ‘inappropriate.'”
If tamales are inappropriate, we don’t want to be appropriate.
*First Published: November 12, 2020, 10:59 am
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