‘Migrant president’: Mexico says Biden asylum policies boost illegals, cartels
The Mexican government is concerned that President Biden’s asylum policies are encouraging illegal immigration and providing revenue to drug cartels through human trafficking across the US border.
Mexico has asked the Biden administration for help to provide developmental aid to Central America since many of the migrants come from countries such as Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala seeking asylum in the US.
“They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden after their virtual meeting on March 1, according to Reuters.
“We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next,” Lopez Obrador added.
SHOCKING VIDEO: Cartel Kidnaps Migrants Threatens to Murder Over Ransom
The proof-of-life video shows a rare look at the shocking brutality of the migrant kidnapping crisis in Mexico, where thousands of people are victimized every year. t.co/BHSb2sluhC
— VICE News (@VICENews) March 11, 2021
After the kidnapping, the victim who called his wife gave up his dream of joining her in the US and returned to Cuba. He couldn’t take more brutality and suffering. t.co/BHSb2sluhC
— VICE News (@VICENews) March 11, 2021
“I want to show the world what’s happening here in Mexico,” the man said, “so people can begin to know the risk that migrants face when they ask for asylum in the US.” t.co/BHSb2sluhC
— VICE News (@VICENews) March 11, 2021
Josh Hammer: The Shameful Tragedy of Open Borders
At present time, the United States’ southern border is wide open. Unaccompanied alien children, single alien men and intact alien families are all pouring over en masse. Anecdotal horror stories abound: On Thursday, for instance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted: “Within 24 hours, Laredo North Station Border Patrol agents apprehended 111 individuals during 3 separate human smuggling attempts involving commercial trailers.” This is a legitimate crisis, notwithstanding self-serving presidential obfuscation to the contrary. And it is a legitimate crisis entirely of the Democratic Party’s own making.
As this column has previously noted, CBP data evinced as early as last October that border apprehensions were skyrocketing in anticipation of a possible Joe Biden presidential victory. By the lame-duck period of the Trump presidency, U.S.-bound migrant “caravans” were already forming in Central America’s troubled Northern Triangle region. But what was at that time a developing issue has now predictably metastasized into the first full-blown — and entirely self-inflicted — political disaster of the young Biden presidency.