Joe Biden and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) met in a series of meetings in December. Then, AMLO met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Few particular results were announced from these meetings, but shortly thereafter, things began to change on both sides of the border.
In the US, in a move resembling Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, officials began to adjudicate quickly some recently admitted migrants so that those not meeting the requirements for asylum were returned to Mexico. Meanwhile, down in Mexico, immigration officials began rounding up migrants in northern border cities before they could cross. Some were flown or bused to cities in southern Mexico and some were even returned to their home countries.
The impact of both actions was to stem, temporarily, the tide of illegals crossing into the US. The Democrats in charge of the White House hope that at least a lessening of the traffic will draw the attention of the electorate away from Biden’s disastrous border policy when it comes time to vote in November. In Mexico, which has a national election in June, the hope among the ruling Morena party is that decreased traffic will appeal to the existing 12 million Mexican nationals in the US who are eligible to vote remotely in Mexico’s election.
Thus, through these temporary policy changes, the two ruling parties hope to secure leftist victories in both countries. Don’t be fooled. Joe Biden has retreated not one inch from his determination to welcome as many third-world migrants as he can. His party is counting on it.
More optimistically, Randy Clark of Breitbart News points out that these temporary changes “may be too little, too late to secure a victory for Democrats.” A Monmouth University poll taken this month showed that 76 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s immigration record, and only 26 percent approve.
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