{"id":55799,"date":"2021-03-11T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55799"},"modified":"2021-03-11T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:18:25","slug":"mexican-president-slams-biden-for-creating-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55799","title":{"rendered":"Mexican President Slams Biden for Creating Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Migrant president\u2019: Mexico says Biden asylum policies boost illegals, cartels<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Elizabeth Elizalde
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

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Honduran migrants are blocked by Guatemalan soldiers and police from advancing toward the US border, on the highway in Vado Hondo, Guatemala on Jan. 18, 2021.Sandra Sebastian\/AP, File<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Mexican government is concerned that President Biden\u2019s asylum policies are encouraging illegal immigration and providing revenue to drug cartels through human trafficking across the US border.<\/p>\n

Mexico has asked the Biden administration for help to provide developmental aid to Central America since many of the migrants come from countries such as Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala seeking asylum in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they\u2019re going to reach the United States,\u201d Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden after their virtual meeting on March 1, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can\u2019t be tackled from one day to the next,\u201d Lopez Obrador added.<\/p>\n

Some of Biden\u2019s policies that worry the Mexican government include a fast track to citizenship for migrants living in the US and support for gang violence victims.<\/p>\n

Internal assessments reviewed by Reuters \u2014 based on testimony and intelligence gathering \u2014 state that Mexican gangs have been growing their clientele and keeping tabs on US measures that would encourage migration. Additionally they have developed a new tracking system to move migrants across the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

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Mexico has asked the Biden administration for help to provide developmental aid to Central America. Andrew Harnik\/AP<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One Mexican official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters the cartels have been using sophisticated smuggling methods \u201cfrom the day Biden took office,\u201d<\/p>\n

Those strategies include keeping migrants up to date on the latest immigration rules, using technology to thwart authorities, and disguising smuggling operations as travel agencies, according to the assessments.<\/p>\n

Reuters also reported<\/a> that plastic wristbands, some labeled \u201carrivals\u201d or \u201centries\u201d in Spanish, were seen discarded near Penitas, Texas after illegal immigrants crossed the border.<\/p>\n

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Migrants walk on train tracks on their journey from Central America to the US border on Feb. 10, 2021. Isabel Mateos\/AP<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMigrants have become a commodity,\u201d the official told the outlet. \u201cBut if a packet of drugs is lost in the sea, it\u2019s gone. If migrants are lost, it\u2019s human beings we\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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