The resulting "Joint Communique" from that parley reveals Mexico City has no interest in assisting an administration that won't secure US borders.
President Biden is confronted with polling that shows his immigration and border policies are wildly unpopular with a solid majority of voters - while he's also attempting to appease the progressive wing of his own party, which refuses to budge in Senate talks on border fixes.
The president's only hope was for AMLO to bail out his failing policies by agreeing to control the flow of migrants passing through Mexico to the United States.
In October, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas concluded the average monthly remittance to Mexico from the 11 million "Mexican migrants" living here was $390 per month.
At a Thursday morning press conference, AMLO crowed that "Rail crossings and the border bridges" between the two countries, which had been closed so officers could assist Border Patrol agents with migrant processing, "Are already being opened." According to the US trade representative, the United States had a $131.1 billion trade deficit with Mexico in 2022, and the Dallas Fed has reported Mexico became our largest trading partner in 2023.
Unlike his successor, President Donald Trump was willing to wield our economic power to force border concessions out of Mexico.
Until Biden follows Trump's lead and adopts at least some of his effective migrant policies, the border crisis will continue, and the White House will be forced to issue more even more pusillanimous "Joint communiqués."
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