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| Mexico agrees to keep US border crossings open after talks with Blinken and Mayorkas | |
| 2023-12-29 | |
| Where was Kamala? [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Mexican and U.S. officials agreed to keep border crossings open, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The United States earlier this month temporarily shuttered several crossings, including two key rail bridges, to redeploy enforcement resources elsewhere across the border amid soaring migrant numbers, a pivotal issue in next year's U.S. elections. 'This agreement has been reached, the rail crossings and the boarder bridges are already being opened to normalize the situation,' Lopez Obrador told a morning press conference. 'Every day there is more movement on the border bridges.' The closures were seen as a way for the U.S. to put pressure on Mexico to do more to stop migrants hopping freight cars, buses and trucks to the border. Mexico Tells Pleading Biden: We'll Curb 2024 Migrant Flood if You Aid Dictators [Breitbart] Lopez Obrador urged U.S. lawmakers to invest more to help the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean 'instead of putting up barriers, barbed wire fences in the river, or thinking about building walls.' Because it worked so well for Puerto Rico. Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hinted to a U.S. delegation that he will reduce migration to the United States if liberal President Joe Biden gives more aid and support to Latin American dictators. Instead of blocking migration, “it is more efficient and more humane to invest in the development of the people,” Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said before the Wednesday meeting. “The migration issue is going to intensify” in 2024, he added. “Mexico has the upper hand this time around,” said a tweet from Auden Cabello, a Mexico-based journalist who covered the December 27 meeting between Biden’s deputies and Obrador, often called “AMLO.” Cabello continued: AMLO knows US elections are around the corner and immigration is a top issue. US is desperate for Mexico’s help to stem the [migrant] flow. AMLO will capitalize by asking for more [aid] funding, and ask the US to invest in root causes (Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua) instead of walls. All three countries — Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua — are run by left-wing dictators who are already exporting their people to work in the United States. Each month, Biden’s progressive deputies already welcome roughly 22,000 workers from the three dictatorships, who then help the dictators by sending remittances home from their low-wage U.S. jobs. The remittances also fund and motivate additional migration into the United States. In 2023, Biden and his pro-migration deputies admitted roughly four million illegal migrants across the southern border and deported only about 500,000. The vast illegal inflow welcomed from Mexico is in addition to the legal immigration of roughly one million migrants, the inflow of roughly one million legal visa workers, and the rising number of people who overstay their legal visas. The total inflow in 2023 added up to roughly 5.5 million people — or roughly three migrants for every two American births. Related: Lopez Obrador: 2023-12-22 Biden and Mexico's President AMLO agree to ramp up 'enforcement' in crisis talks as border reaches breaking point with more than 10,000 migrants crossing each day as White House admits 'there's probably more we can be doing' Lopez Obrador: 2023-11-11 Mexican Government Does Nothing as Gulf Cartel Sets Fire to Border Town Lopez Obrador: 2023-10-04 Mexico begins busing immigrants from Guatemala to US border | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 ^"The Day After Tomorrow" Dennis Quaid finds his son holed up in a NYC library, burning books to stay warm. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-29 23:36 |
| #6 There is a fun scene in that crap movie about the world going into a sudden freeze where our heroes stay alive only because of a gas stove. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-12-29 17:00 |
| #5 Stuck in the kitchen at her gas stove |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-12-29 13:30 |
| #4 Kamala was working on not doing every other responsibility assigned to her. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-29 12:25 |
| #3 If we don't want to control out southern border, why should Mexico? I can't decide if this meeting was ignorant, hypocritical, or maybe both? |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-12-29 11:32 |
| #2 color me surprised |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-12-29 08:42 |
| #1 So... Not the Bee. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-12-29 02:00 |