Trump’s America: No Country for Illegal AliensAmerican Greatness, Jun 10, 2019, Pedro Gonzalez
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador once said that immigration to the United States is a “human right,†one that his government would observe and defend. And yet it seems now that fear of President Trump’s tariffs has changed AMLO’s tune.
The Mexican government on Wednesday arrested 350 Central Americans, including two prominent “migrant rights†activists, who were part of a large group headed toward the United States. Mexico is also planning to deploy an additional 6,000 national guard troops to its border with Guatemala.
It gets better.
The day after those activists were arrested, the Mexican Finance Ministry froze the bank accounts of 26 individuals for their alleged involvement in facilitating migrant caravans to the United States from Central America.
It took about a week after Trump threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff—for starters—on all Mexican exports to the United States for Obrador to bend the knee. In fact, Obrador has gone so far as to offer “a sweeping overhaul of asylum rules across†Mexico, the Washington Post reports.
So much for immigration to the United States as a “human right.â€
The proposed asylum overhaul has three parts. First, it would require that Central Americans seek refuge in the first country they enter, rather than the United States.
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