Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has praised President Joe Biden for taking a stand against the U.S. border wall, and criticized conservatives during the North American Leaders’ Summit on Tuesday. It comes as the United States sees a surge in illegal immigration across the southern border.
“You, President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built not even one meter of wall. And that—we thank you for that, sir, although some might not like it—although the conservatives don’t like it,” Lopez Obrador said in a joint press conference.
He thanked Biden for maintaining a “relationship of cooperation” with Mexico and for not subjecting Mexicans who “live and work in a very honest fashion” in the United States to harassment. “They’re not suffering raids as it unfortunately used to happen in the past,” the Mexican president added.
Lopez Obrador asked Biden to insist that Congress “regularize the migration situations” of millions of Mexicans who have been living in the United States.
On Jan. 21, 2021, a day after becoming president, Biden issued an executive order that halted construction of the border wall, commenting that a massive wall spanning the entire southern border is “not a serious policy solution” and a “waste of money.”
Between 2017 and 2020, 450 miles of the wall were authorized and built under the Trump administration.
In July last year, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the remaining funds, which were allocated for the construction of the wall along the Mexico–U.S. border, would be spent on “environmental remediation and mitigation” as well as for installing cameras, lighting, and detection technology in places where barriers are already built.
Migration Jump
Under the Biden administration, illegal immigrants entering via the southern border have surged. During fiscal year 2020, there were 458,088 apprehensions. This rose to 1.73 million in fiscal year 2021, a jump of 278 percent, data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show.
During fiscal year 2022, apprehensions rose to 2.3 million. In the first two months of fiscal year 2023, apprehensions exceeded the total apprehensions of fiscal year 2020. According to Steven Kopits with Princeton Policy Advisors, the rise in border crossers is set to continue its upward trend this year as well.
Kopits had earlier predicted around 2 million apprehensions for 2021 and 2.3 million for 2022, which is close to the actual numbers. For 2023, Kopits is predicting apprehensions to hit 2.6 million, another record in terms of annual illegal immigration.
If Kopits’s projections are true, it would mean that 6.9 million illegal aliens would have been apprehended between 2021 and 2023 under the Biden administration.
GOP Action
On Sunday, Biden visited the southern border for the first time since his presidency. House Republicans are planning to investigate the Biden administration on the issue of border security.
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who was recently selected by the House Steering Committee to chair the House Homeland Security Committee, has promised to fight for a stronger U.S. border.
“For the sake of our national security and homeland security, we must secure our border,” Green said in a statement to Fox. “We have no choice. We will empower our brave CBP agents to do their jobs and hold President Biden and [Department of Homeland Security] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas accountable for the crisis that they created.”
Since Biden became president, he has presided over more than 5.5 million illegal border crossings as well as over 1.2 million known gotaways. The term “gotaways” refers to illegal immigrants who were spotted by agents or captured on camera but have not been caught or processed by officials.
With friends like that beyond the Southern Border, who needs enemies?
Of course he wouldn’t want that wall. HOW ELSE Will he send us all his dregs!
Traitorous pile of Schiff.
It’s called the Biden Family double cross and double dip. First Joe gets his 10% of the cost overruns taxpayers spent to buy all the wall materials that never get used, then gets his 10% kickbacks from the Mexican drug Lords for clearing the way for their drugs to come in, just like Obrador does now. He allows a 5th columnist army of darkness to enter every major inland city by the millions that is financed with the capability to Make 100 January 6th demonstrations, and defeat with more modern weapons our defunded police forces if a rebellion ever comes to pass. TRAITOR is too kind a word for him and THE PEOPLE will live to regret it. Our cities are about to burn baby burn, and Biden and the Democrats have supplied the energy for the enemy to make it happen while defunding THE PEOPLE’s ability to resist them.
If all these Mexicans who “live and work in a very honest fashion” in the United States are subject to harassment, just why are they so willing to break our laws to flee the hell hole that Obregon and the drug lords have turned Mexico into? We will see just how open minded Obregon is when we shove 4 million back into Mexico and watch their crime rates, fentanyl poisonings and street violence go even higher than they are now. These are not their best, brightest or most honest arriving unvetted.
In one report the Mexican president is complaining about all the people moving thru Mexico to the US border. Then he commends biden on not building a fence? Make up your mind
Because he doesn’t WANT US TO have a boundary on OUR border.. ALL SO HE can keep sending them right on Through his nation to OURS!
Naturally Obrador is glad the wall isn’t being completed. Open borders allows him to get rid of all the poor and uneducated that he would otherwise have to take care of. As corrupt as the Mexican government is, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a cut from the cartels who are transporting the illegals through Mexico.
But the biggest reason is that the money sent back to Mexico by illegals in the US makes up the biggest source of income for Mexico. More than Mexico earns from it’s oil exports, it’s manufacturing, or anything!
I forgot which show it was, but one had facts and figures showing that “RENUMERATIONS from the USA, is the 2nd Largest source of income for mexico, and MANY OTHER central american nations..
TIME WE CUT That the hell off.
If I had any money to bet-which thanks to Bite-Me Biden and his Communist cronies I don’t-I’d be willing to risk it on the Mexican President being on the take from the drug cartels. So of course he doesn’t want the wall built.
Of course, no wall means more illegal invaders from Mexico can quickly make it here, get all the benefits (free I might add) here, work under thebtable so trhey can send the majority of that money back to Mexico so he, as president can live a very luxurious life while not having to provide much of anything to his citizens.
“You, President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built not even one meter of wall” so said obrador. Of course he knows biden is gullible for praise so why not tell a lie. Pay attention to what he said – first president in…….long time, blah, blah. There have NOT been many other “presidents” who wanted a wall built – only the previous ONE. A puppet dances as the puppeteer directs.