Biden Is a Boon to Mexican Cartels
Three cheers for Governor Greg Abbott’s recent efforts to halt the flow of illegal migrants into Texas by placing floating barriers in the Rio Grande. On behalf of his state and the entire country, the Texas governor is desperately fighting open-border radicals in the Biden administration and the Mexican government. The unlawful migrant diaspora intentionally sparked by President Joe Biden is fundamentally disrupting both countries and feeding Mexican criminal cartels more opportunities than ever before for illicit profits and human exploitation.
It was the candidate Biden in the 2020 campaign who recklessly set these dangerous human waves of migration into motion; he personally bears the responsibility for this policy folly, which will doubtless be his main presidential legacy. Today, Biden officials make token calls for unlawful migrants to use the so-called new “legal pathways” that the administration has dubiously cobbled together, but the reality is that all unauthorized arrivals on the southern border are still admitted — and continue to come.
Statistics vary, but nobody disputes that the vast movement of clandestine migrants, urged by candidate Biden to “surge” to the U.S. southern border, is producing billions in new criminal cartel profits. Even President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security estimates that the human blood money paid to get across the U.S. southern border has grown from about $500 million in 2018 to an incredible $13 billion in 2022.
Meanwhile, south of the border, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), in step with Biden, has denounced Governor Abbott for engaging in “very vulgar publicity stunts” to fool the American people. In rejecting the right of the U.S. to defend its frontiers, AMLO quotes biblical scripture as ordaining an eternal right for migrants to cross any borders, anywhere, in search of a better way of life.
These comments are bizarre even by AMLO’s standards, and for good measure he urged Mexicans in the United States, particularly in Texas, to vote against Abbott and Republican legislators who support the governor’s border-security measures. Standing in front of his banner honoring Pancho Villa, El Señor Presidente clearly sees no irony in his constant demand that foreign critics, particularly Americans, not voice una palabra of opposition to his policies, while he is free to constantly instruct Washington on everything from managing Cuba diplomacy to outwitting conservatives; and now he is regularly advising American citizens of Mexican heritage in Gringolandia on how to vote.
Only strong diplomacy, along the lines exercised by the Trump administration, can push AMLO in another direction and bring sanity and security back to U.S.-Mexican relations. With Biden and Lopez Obrador paired, however, facilitating illegal immigration has become the heart of our bilateral security policy.
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