Just a month ago, thousands of economic migrants a day crossing illegally from this Mexican city over the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas, submerged U.S. Border Patrol and Texas State military forces, mesmerized the international media, and - significantly - pounded Joe Biden's re-election poll numbers.
Because the Biden campaign simply could not brook the bad polling part, the last and only migrants who can be found anywhere in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras today cower in fear behind the skirts of nuns inside the tall, barbed-wire-rimmed compound of a Catholic Church-run shelter called Casa Del Migrante.
The roughly 200 inside are hounded by a suddenly wider-than-usual assortment of Mexican army, state police, and national immigration service predators hunting them down to forcibly transport them 1,500 miles into southern Mexico to a new kind of Gaza Strip along the Guatemala border.
After Biden and his chief lieutenants returned from mysterious diplomatic missions to Mexico City in late December with a still-secret deal in hand, Mexico's central government mounted one of the most epic domestic anti-illegal-immigration operations in recent memory.
At Biden's apparent urging, the Mexican army, national guard, and Mexican immigration officers rushed into the northern borderlands just after Christmas and, with state police, began rounding up tens of thousands of migrants in Piedras Negras and many other cities.
Some of what Mexico is doing for Biden would alienate his progressive liberal voting base if American media would cover any of it.
The tactics are having a real impact on the border crisis, showing that Biden all along could have leveraged Mexico to do this work.
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