[The song] was released during a period of deep social unrest and political turmoil in the United States — not totally far from Trump’s "America First" today.
The United States’ demand for drugs destroys Mexico’s everyday life, and those who escape from this destroyed life are again met with the guns of U.S. ICE agents.
For a nation founded on massacres of Native Americans and centuries-long African slave ownership, the lurch towards racism under Trump is not surprising.