The catalyst of mainly Mexican northern border crossings is a policy that Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented on December 1, 2016.
Trudeau's fast-pass, visa-free loophole for Mexicans to fly into Canada may seem inexplicable unless seen through the prism of Canadian politics.
The new surge of Mexicans at the northern border is shaping up as far worse than the earlier one during Trump, with 1,604 Border Patrol apprehensions in just the first five months of fiscal 2023.
While its 1,604 apprehensions are infinitesimal compared to southern border's 253,701 apprehensions of Mexicans, there is ample cause for Americans to ask about the Trudeau policy and to question why the Biden administration, in many recent immigration meetings and summits with the Trudeau government, has never demanded its immediate end before the situation worsens.
The paper quoted officials at nonprofit refugee assistance groups attesting to the fact that most fly to Canada because they found out about Trudeau's visa-free policy for Mexicans and that they could access government financial assistance while awaiting the outcomes of their asylum applications.
So there should also be little doubt that regular economic migrants are once again paying the Mexican cartels in Canada to organize their southward crossings into the United States before or after they lose or abandon their pro-forma Canadian asylum claims.
In summary, three factors explain why Mexicans are now surging south over the American border: Canada's policy allowing them easy, visa-free flights in, Canada's willingness to deport them after they inevitably become illegally present there, and an irresistibly alluring Biden administration policy that suspended almost every kind of interior deportation, creating a sanctuary nation sucking them southward out of Canada.
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