The government of Mexico, currently hosting around 40,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Cuba whom it has admitted across its southern border, is anxious to be rid of them. All of the migrants of course want to live in the United States (no one wants to be “stuck in Mexico”), and the Biden administration is anxious to have them as well. But they need to be legally “processed” in some way, which usually occurs on the U.S. side of Mexico’s northern border. As we know, however, that border is in chaos, and it would be nice to clear at a distance as many of the 40,000 as possible for entrance into the U.S.
Mexico’s answer? Partner with the United Nations to do “pre-screening.” The UN is just as anxious to pack the U.S. full of the world’s excess as Joe Biden is and is willing to help out. Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said the new program would involve the UN setting up its own center in southern Mexico to handle the processing. No exact location has been identified, but Barcena said it would not be in Tapachula, the Mexican city near the Guatemala border where Mexico does its own processing. She explained that the (Mexican) “government doesn’t want to mix the processes together.”
There are, of course, many other migrants now waiting in southern Mexico who are not from one of the four countries identified, but citizens of Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Cuba have specific parole processes for US immigration because the U.S. lacks diplomatic relations with those countries. Handing the screening off of at least those 40,000 to the United Nations would ease Mexico’s role in the migration “conveyor belt” as well as give most of the migrants a clear path to American residency, the first step that ends in naturalization and citizenship.
Just what we need: the UN telling us who to admit.
For more, see MSN.com.