President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has overseen an unprecedented level of migrant apprehensions in the 2024 calendar year which has, in turn, led to a decrease in migrant encounters for U.S. federal immigration authorities.
The drop in migrant flow has helped ease a major headache for Biden as he's faced poor polling on the migration issue, but questions remain whether the will to crack down on illegal immigration by Mexican leaders will remain after the U.S. election.
The decline in migrant numbers seen by American immigration authorities has mostly coincided with what's been a substantial increase in immigration enforcement by their Mexican counterparts.
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Oval Office at the White House on July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. The illegal immigration crisis has seemingly pushed Americans to the right on the issue, with polls showing many voters now favoring enforcement tactics championed by Trump, such as mass deportations, a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, detention camps for illegal immigrants awaiting removal and the use of military troops to help with deportation efforts.
The Mexican help in border enforcement is coming at an opportune moment for Biden as he faces a close election against a Republican challenger who is well known for being an immigration hardliner, and some experts are questioning the timing.
"President Biden seems to be actively avoiding creating scenes of confrontations with migrants at the US border, given the likely backlash from his base. Instead, the Biden administration is effectively outsourcing migration enforcement to the Mexican government, and by doing so has given President Lopez Obrador incredible leverage over the U.S., Martinez-Fernandez said."
During a "60 Minutes" interview earlier this year, the leftist Mexican president proposed his government could step up enforcement measures if the U.S. committed $20 billion annually to impoverished Latin American and Caribbean countries, lifted sanctions on the socialist Venezuelan government, ended the Cuban embargo and legalized millions of Mexican nationals living unlawfully in the U.S. Trump, in reaction to those demands, said they came from a "Lack of respect" for Biden and that his GOP administration wouldn't give "10 cents" to Mexico.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/01/mexico-immigration-relief-biden/
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