Biden Meets with Mexican President, but Border Crisis is “Not a Real Focus” of Discussions, Says the White House

On Thursday, President
Biden hosted a gathering together with his regional counterparts, Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico. No
doubt, the three leaders had many essential issues to speak about: Hovering
inflation, runaway vitality prices, COVID, provide chain snarls, local weather change, to
identify only a few.

Oddly, the border disaster was not on the checklist. “There’s not an actual focus, this time round, on our borders,” an unnamed administration official mentioned main as much as the talks. When reporters requested in regards to the Stay in Mexico coverage, the official mentioned that “it’s not really one of many themes or focuses of [the meetings].”

1.7 million individuals have been apprehended
final yr coming throughout the border from Mexico, with no signal of abatement, and
that’s “not an actual focus” of dialogue when Joe Biden sits down head to head
with the president of Mexico? And it’s not as if immigration didn’t come
up in any respect on the trilateral summit. President Lopez Obrador discovered time to provide
Biden kudos for his efforts to enact a sweeping unlawful alien amnesty (as a result of
apparently, the president of Mexico is just not shy about weighing in on a home
U.S. coverage).

“President Biden, no
president within the historical past of the US has expressed as you might have such a
clear and sure dedication to enhance the scenario of the migrants and thus
I want to specific my acknowledgment,” Lopez Obrador recommended. “And I
notably seek advice from your proposal to manage the migratory standing of 11
million individuals who dwell and work truthfully on this nice nation. I hope that you simply
have the help of Congress and the members of each Democrat and Republican events.”
In actual fact, Lopez Obrador desires our border open even wider. “Why not research the
workforce calls for, the labor calls for and open the migratory stream?” he added.

For his half, President
Biden urged his Mexican counterpart to affix him in a “joint funding” to “tackle
collectively the foundation causes of migration in Central America.” In some way I doubt the
“joint funding” will likely be a 50-50 association, or that any of us will dwell
lengthy sufficient to see poverty, corruption and crime eradicated within the sending
nations.

It’s onerous to sympathize with Vice President Kamala Harris. However provided that her boss doesn’t suppose that the border disaster must be “an actual focus” of dialogue with the president of Mexico, maybe she and her political allies have a degree that the president is setting her as much as fail.