MEXICO CITY - Much was made of the ballyhooed trip Secretary of State Antony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made to Mexico amid a record-breaking month for illegal aliens entering the United States. However, as expected, the trip accomplished nothing except keeping the wide-open US-Mexico border open. Conspicuous by her absence was Biden's "border czar," Cackling Kamala Harris. Never mind...she was in California on vacation.
In a meeting between the two feckless Biden administration officials and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, it was agreed that border crossings would remain open despite the trip being touted as a means to seek Mexico’s help in stemming the record illegal entries into the US, the Daily Mail reported.
Earlier in December, the US closed down several crossings, including two crucial rail bridges between the two countries, to redeploy border patrol personnel elsewhere on the border to assist with the invasion that has stepped up exponentially in the past few months.
“This agreement has been reached, the rail crossings and the border bridges are already being opened to normalize the situation,” Lopez Obrador said in a press conference.
“Every day, there is more movement on the border bridges.”
It was initially thought closing the entry points would be a way to put pressure on the Mexican government to do more to stem the tide of illegals making their way to the border, but as is to be expected from Biden and company, Blinken and Mayorkas came back with goose eggs.
It is estimated over one-half a million “migrants” crossed the Darien Gap, a dangerous passage through the South and Central American jungle, which doubled last year’s record. While the mainstream media claims the “migrants” are headed to the United States to flee crime and poverty, they cross through dozens of countries during their journey that could easily accommodate their “migrant” status.
On Wednesday, the Mexican president said US lawmakers should concern themselves more with helping the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean “instead of putting up barriers, barbed wire fences in the river, or thinking about building walls.” He didn’t, however, say how much Mexico should contribute to those ends.
With Joe Biden’s poll numbers in the tank, illegals are rushing to enter the United States since other polling shows former President Donald Trump, a border hawk, leading Biden in several key battleground states. Trump has promised to crack down on illegal entry to the US and restrict unlawful immigration if elected. He has also vowed to resume constructing a border wall, which was halted when Biden was installed into office in January 2021.
While there was hope that the leaders would discuss the fentanyl crisis in the US, Lopez Obrador said that issue was “hardly discussed.” According to NPR, overdose deaths in the US due to fentanyl topped 112,000 thus far in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Much of that fentanyl crosses the southern border into the US from Mexico.
While the US has been pressuring Mexico over fentanyl, Mexico has asked the US to control further the flow of firearms into Mexico that end up in the hands of drug cartels.
In a show of suspicious timing, the Mexican government in Matamoros, located across the border from Brownsville, Texas, cleared out abandoned tents from a migrant camp with bulldozers. The camp was set up late in 2022, however, many of the estimated 1,500 people who lived there have made their way into the US via the Rio Grande River.
While the head of Mexico’s immigration agency in Matamoros said the tents were empty, some dispute that, including a Honduran national who gave his name only as Jose. He said there were some 200 migrants still in the camp, and they were forced to leave when the clearance began late last Tuesday.
“They ran us out,” he said, noting they were given short notice to move out before the bulldozers moved in. “You had to run for your life to avoid an accident.”
Last Tuesday, an estimated 70 illegals jumped into the Rio Grande and crossed into the US. They were allegedly trapped for hours along the river bank under layers of concertina wire set up on orders of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Gladys Canas, founder of a Matamoros-based NGO, said the migrants have few options when asked to leave the encampment. She said her group has been encouraging them not to swim across the Rio Grande into the United States since several drowned in the past few days attempting to cross the river.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of illegals crossed into the United States (the ones we know about) in the first quarter of FY-2024. Yet the Biden administration does nothing to stop them. But photo ops of Mayorkas and Blinken in Mexico sure look good.
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