U.S. Proposes to Help Fund Mexico's Immigration Enforcement Efforts
What's to gain for either nation?
By Dan Cadman on September 20, 2018
The New York Times revealed last week that the Trump administration was poised to shift program funds in order to provide Mexico with about $20 million in assistance in return for Mexico doing more to enforce its immigration laws and secure its southern border against trespass by Central Americans trekking through en route to the United States.
The Times, in typical fashion, could not help expressing its sense of irony that, instead of getting Mexico to pay for a U.S. southern border wall, we would be paying them for immigration enforcement.
Whether or not Mexico will be open to such a proposal remains to be seen; my colleague Kausha Luna has posted a blog on the matter, noting that Mexico's president-elect, Andrés Manuel López-Obrador ("AMLO" as he is affectionately referred), a nationalist-populist-leftist, may be cool to the proposal. Based on his past statements, including references to the "right" of peoples to migrate to the United States, there is certainly reason to doubt that he will be much enamored of the offer.
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