Now Biden is telling them to stop coming, after begging Mexico's president to help stem the flood of illegal migrants.
According to the New York Times, after Biden halted construction on the border wall, stopped turning away children, and proposed a pathway to citizenship, the surge in migrants has overwhelmed the Biden administration's ability to process them.
Faced with a crisis of his own making, Biden reportedly asked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 'whether more could be done to help solve the problem.
Biden and AMLO even discussed the possibility of the United States sending Mexico some of its surplus vaccine supply, a senior Mexican official told the Times, which notes that "Mexico has publicly asked the Biden administration to send it doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has not been approved for use in the United States."
With Biden less likely to slap Mexico with tariffs like Trump, it's hard to imagine they'll willingly hold the line against the surge of migrants.
Under the Biden administration, they say, Customs and Border Patrol agents now deposit migrants at some of the most obscure, understaffed checkpoints, leaving their Mexican counterparts scrambling when they discover dozens of migrants walking in from the United States.
NYT. And despite 'very public tensions with Mexico under Mr. Trump,' AMLO has been weary of the Biden administration, while the Mexican government has pushed the US to deter Central Americans from migrating by sending humanitarian aid to Honduras and Guatemala following two hurricanes which devastated the region and - experts say, pushed people to migrate.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/after-rolling-out-blue-carpet-biden-begs-mexico-stop-migrants
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