Biden
rolls over like a lapdog for Mexico's el presidente
By Monica
Showalter www.americanthinker.com
With elections on and Joe Biden
hovering at around a 40% public approval rating, everyone can see that Joe
Biden's starting to get desperate over his polls.
Vying for issue number one among
voters is an out-of-control open border with illegal immigration now hitting
record highs as hundreds of thousands pour in. Cities are going bankrupt with the
onslaught. Border Patrol agents are shutting down legitimate trade to
"process" migrants. Hospitals are flooded with diseased and injured
migrants, and schools are overwhelmed with indigent pupils speaking more than a
hundred languages.
Instead of change his policies to
match what's written in law, Biden has sent his men down to Mexico to try to
talk Mexico's anti-U.S. president, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, into taking
care of his migrant problem for him. AMLO, of course, is actually helping the
migrants get in, which is a situation requiring assertiveness but there was
none of that from Joe, just the image of a pleading lapdog.
According to the New
York Post:
The White House sent Secretary of
State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on
Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hoping to
obtain his assistance in slowing the wave of migrants crossing through his
country on their way to ours.
The resulting “Joint Communique” from that parley reveals Mexico City has
no interest in assisting an administration that won’t secure US borders.
The trip itself, scheduled during a
holiday week when little gets done in either capital, reeked of desperation,
and nothing in that communiqué dispels the stench.
Here's the main
section of the declaration that came of it:
The two countries reaffirmed their
existing commitments on fostering an orderly, humane, and regular migration.
This includes reinforcing our partnership to address the root causes of
migration, such as poverty, inequality, and violence, and for the two
countries’ initiative for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
Ongoing cooperation also includes enhanced efforts to disrupt human smuggling,
trafficking, and criminal networks, and continuing the work to
promote legal instead of irregular migration pathways. Also, both delegations
agreed on the importance of maintaining and facilitating the vital bilateral trade
at our shared border.
President López Obrador highlighted
the commitment of President Biden to pursue
regular, orderly, and secure migration. He stressed the need to
continue the diplomatic and political engagement with all countries in the
region, as well as investing in ambitious development programs throughout the
entire hemisphere of the Americas. Both delegations underlined the efforts that
the Biden administration is pursuing through development assistance and
humanitarian aid, as well as advancing new private investments in the region.
Which is garbage, pretty much
regurgitated palaver about 'root causes' from Biden's border czar, Kamala
Harris and her vaunted migration report, which mean nothing.
We notice that she wasn't invited to this all-important meeting for Biden.
She was just there in spirit.
More specifically, it's about money,
and dropping sanctions for AMLO's crummy little socialist friends running the
Nicaraguan, Cuban, and Venezuelan dictatorships. AMLO saw his opportunity with
Biden, recognizing how desperate he was for Mexico to stop the migrants, and
decided that now was the time to get the U.S. to drop sanctions on
those countries, which is what they want, and get their hands into the
money pots of the big greedy gringo capitalists with so-called
"investments."
The Post points out that AMLO gets
$55 billion in untaxed remittance cash each year, mostly from the U.S. and its
illegal migrants, and he'd like to have more of that coming. That goes
doubly so for the regimes of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, which don't have
much of any cash coming in except migrant remittances. Nicaragua, for one,
reported record remittances this week from its illegal migrants.
It's telling that Mexico dropped the
words "democratic decline" as one of its root causes of illegal
migration in the official statement, apparently on its own, in the Spanish
version of the document. Someone noticed, and then Joe Biden rolled again,
dropping those words from the U.S. version of the statement in English as if
following Mexico instead of sticking to the agreed-upon statement.
The Hill described that embarrassing
rollover here.
The Mexican version, identical save
for the phrase “democratic decline,” caused an uproar among the country’s
opposition, which has raised red flags over López Obrador’s institutional
reforms.
López Obrador has derided
institutions such as the country’s independent electoral authority as
“neoliberal,” “conservative” and too costly for the country, pushing reforms
and budget cuts to weaken them.
To Mexico’s opposition, López
Obrador’s actions are the very definition of “democratic decline.”
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, the
top foreign policy adviser to opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl
Gálvez, accused Mexico’s government on X, the platform formerly
known as Twitter, of “shaving off” the term after the White House
published its initial version.
But the White House reissued the
English language version of the statement hours later, this time without
“democratic decline.”
We might note that democratic
decline is present here, too, in the migrant-receiving country, but that's not
what this is about.
It's about political cover for AMLO
and his dictator-y acts, and AMLO's pals, in socialist hellholes such as Cuba,
Venezuela and Nicaragua. They're all happy the heat's off on their increasingly
oppressive dictatorships and the migrants are flowing outward.
Joe was happy to roll for them
there.
Worse still, there was talk of
amnesty for illegals in the document, an interesting switch for AMLO who
historically has opposed illegal immigration of Mexicans to the states, viewing
them as traitors to the motherland.
Now he likes that illegal
immigration, which, as the Post notes, has brought him billions in remittances
to play around with though the banking system. Who needs poor Mexicans to
support when gringo will do it for him and the money is rolling back to him
instead of the protests? Who needs potential rioters who otherwise would stand
up against his own bad economic policies if they have to live in their own
homeland? Migration is always a cash cow for Mexican governments and for
more reasons than one.
What's bad here is that amnesty --
for DACA kids and longtime illegal migrants -- will encourage more illegal
immigration, not less. After that, AMLO will stand there with his hand out
again, knowing that Feckless Joe will come to him, ready to roll over again.
What an ugly disaster this meeting
was, and what counterproductive things -- none good for Americans -- went on
there.
Back when President Trump was in
office, the U.S. was able to stand tall and hit Mexico with the right
incentives to get it to change its behavior on illegal migrants and the border,
shutting down the border and warning AMLO that there would be no trade until he
played ball. AMLO was able to read Trump clearly and decided it wasn't worth
his while to end trade with one of his top trading partners.
Now it's different. For AMLO, it's
time to shake concessions out of the feckless gringos. He knows Joe Biden won't
change his policies, so now he calls the shots. What a satisfying thing is it
for him to see Joe Biden rolling over for him again and again, pleading for for
one last belly rub from the Mexicans.
