The Trump administration is committing billions of dollars to help Mexico engage in "Institutional reform" to help stanch the flow of illegal immigrants from Central America into Mexico.
Mexican interior secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero tells the Associated Press that Mexico is sealing off its southern border, and that the laxity that invited the flood of illegal immigrants from Central America that crossed into Mexico in October "Is no longer an issue." Apparently, all that was required was the fiat of Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The $5.8 billion the Trump administration is promising to put up dwarfs the $20 million sweetener the United States offered Mexico back in September to step up its immigration enforcement.
The joke writes itself: Mexico is building a wall, and Trump is paying for it, having negotiated a price that is 290 times his opening bid.
Of course we are not funding a literal wall on Mexico's southern border.
Mexico already has one of those - not a coast-to-coast border wall but miles of fencing in and around populated areas and popular crossing points, rather like what exists on the U.S. border with Mexico and what will exist there irrespective of the outcome of the current debate about funding "The wall." But the wall is not Mexico's preferred instrument of immigration control - nor the one the U.S. government prefers for it.
The economic and social development of Mexico is the only real means of mitigating our Mexico problem.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mexico-border-security-us-foreign-aid-good-idea/
Mexican interior secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero tells the Associated Press that Mexico is sealing off its southern border, and that the laxity that invited the flood of illegal immigrants from Central America that crossed into Mexico in October "Is no longer an issue." Apparently, all that was required was the fiat of Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The $5.8 billion the Trump administration is promising to put up dwarfs the $20 million sweetener the United States offered Mexico back in September to step up its immigration enforcement.
The joke writes itself: Mexico is building a wall, and Trump is paying for it, having negotiated a price that is 290 times his opening bid.
Of course we are not funding a literal wall on Mexico's southern border.
Mexico already has one of those - not a coast-to-coast border wall but miles of fencing in and around populated areas and popular crossing points, rather like what exists on the U.S. border with Mexico and what will exist there irrespective of the outcome of the current debate about funding "The wall." But the wall is not Mexico's preferred instrument of immigration control - nor the one the U.S. government prefers for it.
The economic and social development of Mexico is the only real means of mitigating our Mexico problem.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mexico-border-security-us-foreign-aid-good-idea/
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