Under U.S. pressure Mexico shifts immigration policy

[Elderberry]

Big Country Abilene by MARÍA VERZA 9/14/2019

 Under growing pressure from the U.S. government, Mexico’s immigration policy has moved from one promising to help migrants to another characterized by militarized enforcement that has support of the country’s foreign secretary.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has faced pointed criticism from the left about the change in direction, but Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard made clear this week after a meeting at the White House that Mexico plans to stick with the get-tough approach that has succeeded in reducing the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S. border.

“We haven’t done anything that we should be ashamed of,” Ebrard said Tuesday in Washington. “We would never do that.”

Not everyone agrees. More than 100 organizations from Mexico, Central America and the United States signed a letter this week denouncing some of Mexico’s immigration enforcement practices as “arbitrary, indiscriminate and therefore illegal.”

“In these 90 days, Mexico has become President Trump’s border wall,” the letter added.

More: https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/border-report/under-u-s-pressure-mexico-shifts-immigration-policy/

[Bigun]

Sounds like a very positive development to me!

[Fishrrman]

Once again, I just have to say it.

NO OTHER REPUBLICAN except Mr. Trump would have brought to bear the amount of pressure on Mexico required to force them to change their policies.

NOT ONE.
Who are you kiddin'....?

[skeeter]

Once again, I just have to say it.

NO OTHER REPUBLICAN except Mr. Trump would have brought to bear the amount of pressure on Mexico required to force them to change their policies.

NOT ONE.
Who are you kiddin'....?

Completely agree. He hasn't done as much as I wanted him to do, and not as much as he said he would do.

But he's done far, far more than republican presidents who called themselves 'conservative'. Frankly I don't care what he calls himself I'm grateful for what he's been able to accomplish.

[Bigun]

Completely agree. He hasn't done as much as I wanted him to do, and not as much as he said he would do.

But he's done far, far more than republican presidents who called themselves 'conservative'. Frankly I don't care what he calls himself I'm grateful for what he's been able to accomplish.

And so do I.  There is no telling what might have been accomplished had he not not been subjected to a contrived witch hunt of an investigation that weighed over most of the first two years.  Add a willing Republican congress and the sky is the limit.