Mexico-bashing has long been a highly popular activity for American politicians, purported experts and for much of the mainstream media.
The border crisis, for example, in this widespread narrative is cast as somehow at fault for this critical situation.
What this narrative omits is this critical fact: Mexico has no legal obligation to accept non-Mexicans expelled from the United States.
Until a few years ago, Mexico would turn back non-Mexicans U.S. immigration cops sought to push into our southern neighbor.
Today, Mexico’s unofficial policy to take in migrants from any country who are turned back at the border. Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador agreed to implement this plan. Not surprisingly, Mexico is overwhelmed by non-Mexican migrants who sought to cross the border. Mexico does not have the resources, such as shelters or the ability to fly people home, to handle this increasing wave of migrants.
That reality has led Mexico to transport migrants at the border to the state of Tabasco or elsewhere in the far south. The hope is that these migrants will become discouraged and simply trek back to their homelands. However, many haven’t the means to do that.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s neighborly policy is in large part responsible for a drop in attempted border crossings.
Ricardo Chavira Chicano 