United States, trade and migration: what each party thinks

The December 2025 tariff vote captures this theme well. Raising duties on more than 1,400 Chinese goods and imports from other economies lacking a trade deal with Mexico was backed by Morena and the PVEM, while the PT abstained, as did the PAN and the PRI; Movimiento Ciudadano was the only bench opposed. The positions follow from that: Morena and the PVEM strongly agree with keeping those tariffs; the PAN and the PRI land in the middle; the PT disagrees, its floor leader having warned of more inflation and deeper dependence on the United States; Movimiento Ciudadano strongly disagrees, in the name of free trade. Each bloc splits along a different seam.

The PT again breaks from its own side on where Mexico should look. Its platform proposes a Latin American and Caribbean bloc that does not depend on Washington, so it disagrees with putting North American partners first. On the other side, the PAN and the PRI put it in writing: the first pledges to prioritize its two northern neighbors, and the second calls that partnership a national priority, even while defining Mexico as a Latin American country. Morena, Movimiento Ciudadano and SOMOS sit in the middle, each with its own blend: North American ties described as strategic alongside continental integration, main allies in the north with more links elsewhere, or a relationship with the United States deemed fundamental next to a program that looks to Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa.

On migration, no party with a source argues for stopping people from crossing toward the north. Movimiento Ciudadano holds the opposite extreme: it proposes free transit through the country and calls military containment inhumane. The PAN, the PT and SOMOS also disagree, by different routes: respect for human mobility with order at the border, the view that migration cannot be stopped, or the denial that illegal migration even exists. The PRI sits in the middle, between protecting migrants and tightening border security.

What is missing is the governing bloc's paper trail on that last question: Morena and the PVEM appear in the middle only by estimate, and so does PAZ. Seven positions out of 24 here rest on estimates, and PAZ, which will not file a platform until January 2027, has none documented.