Last December, when U.S. President Joe Biden met with with Mexican President Lopez Obrador, there was much speculation that the two had worked out a deal for Mexico to impede the flow of migrants to the United States.
Mexico, according to this view, would do this until our election in November to aid Biden’s chances of reelection. Images of an out-of-control border have harmed the U.S. president’s popularity.
In return, the Mexicans would get benefits. In an interview, Obrador said he would stem the flow of migrants if the U.S. increased foreign aid to Latin America and provided legal status to Mexican illegal aliens living in the U.S.
Recently the movement of migrants across our border have subsided as efforts by Mexico to restrain them have increased. Andres Martinez-Fernandez, a senior policy analyst on Latin America for the Heritage Foundation, observed that “The political motivations behind Mexico’s recent crackdown on migration seem undeniable given the timing.”
He added that “President Biden seems to be actively avoiding creating scenes of confrontations with migrants at the US border, given the likely backlash from his base [if he increased enforcement]. Instead, the Biden administration is effectively outsourcing migration enforcement to the Mexican government.”
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