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| Blinken and Mayorkas to press Mexican counterparts to drive down border crossings as Biden faces increasing pressure |
| 2023-12-27 |
| [CNN] Senior US officials will head to Mexico Wednesday to seek more help from their counterparts to drive down border crossings as President Joe Biden faces increasing pressure over the handling of the US southern border. Immigration has been a political vulnerability for Biden amid fierce criticism from Republicans and some members of his own party over the situation at the US-Mexico border. This month, the issue fell at the center of the president’s foreign policy agenda, as the White House lobbied for aid to Ukraine and Israel amid their war efforts. Lack of consensus over border policy changes ultimately kept Biden from clinching billions of dollars in funds for Ukraine, Israel and the border before the end of the year. Ahead of Wednesday’s meeting, Homeland Security officials have discussed a range of ways Mexico can help drive down numbers at the US border that will be among their asks, including moving migrants south, controlling the railways that are used by migrants to move north, and providing incentives to not journey to the border, like visas, to remain in the country and avoid migrating irregularly. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall will attend the gathering, which bookends a year that kicked off with migration as a key issue. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 The Dems don’t tolerate Biden, Harris, Blinken, Mayorkas and Buttigieg. They perpetrate them upon us. Usually when an Administration does something heinous, they offer up a staff member as a sacrifice. We haven’t even gotten to that point. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-27 14:17 |
| #5 I'm not interested in anything "our" side so long as Mayorkis continues to have a job. If they are happy with him, they'll tolerate anything. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2023-12-27 13:50 |
| #4 If we will not (NOT cannot, but WILL not) control the border, why should the Mexican government lift a finger to help us? Aside, of course, from the suffocating moral superiority of Anthony Blinken. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-12-27 13:35 |
| #3 Biden, Blinken & Nod continue to escape any and all scrutiny for their role in controlling their own country's border crossings. Biden's non feasance is past the point of an impeachable offense. |
| Posted by: Elmaper McGurque1612 2023-12-27 12:51 |
| #2 The Mexicans will succumb to the powerful double team of Tony and Alejandro. It sounds like the plot to an alternative filmmaking genre. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-27 12:33 |
| #1 Migrants are seen sleeping ON TOP top of freight trains in Mexico rail yard as they wait to head to the US |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-27 07:51 |