Maybe it has a small impact, but I have a very hard time imagining it’s going to have anywhere near the impact that would be necessary to justify this intrusion on people’s lives, both in terms of the cost to civil liberties and the cost to the businesses that now have to comply with this. I really do not see this changing the world by any means, but it does expand surveillance of border residents.

Given the pro-extraction climate in the U.S. and the degree of public attention in Mexico, the Saguaro Energía project may become the first test of Sheinbaum’s highly touted environmental commitments.