Mexican president says the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the US meets his demands

[~Elizabeth~]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mig...ry-record-high
Mexican president says the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the US meets his demands

Mexican president says the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the US meets his demands
03/26/2024

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned on Sunday during an interview with "60 Minutes" that unless the United States complies with Latin America’s requests for aid, the tide of migrants will continue.

In January, Obrador issued a series of demands for what the U.S. must do to stop the flow of migrants to the border, ranging from sending Latin American countries $20 billion in aid a year to granting some level of amnesty to illegal immigrant workers in the U.S.

Mexico has reportedly taken some state-level action to curb mass migration at President Biden’s request, making crossings drop, however, the number of migrants began to rise again in February, with Border Patrol expecting another surge in the spring.

I'll post responses from people on another forum that I agree with.

Meeting his "demands" won't change anything. Illegals would still keep coming and he knows it.

$20 billion annually would be better spent on a North Korea-style armed border.

You're 100% right. I get so tired of reading about how Biden is weak on the border when the option is re-elect Dear Leader Trump, or fork over 20 billion in aid like Mexico is the second coming of Israel, or hope Biden figures it out. All three options are complete garbage.

Let's legitimately spend $20B to lock the border down and fund guards, homeland security investigators and well educated social workers to weed through actual immigrants, those that need asylum, etc. Catch the coyotes and prosecute the hell out of them. If we switched the focus like this, we'd begin to eliminate this problem. Not be held for ransom by Mexico's president.