MEXICO CITY – Fewer migrants are reaching the U.S. border than in years. The U.S. government's secret weapon in cutting illegal crossings?
Mexico is holding the line, analysts say, thanks to a carefully negotiated – but unwritten – agreement between neighbors, executed late last year by the Biden-Harris administration. It's held, they say, because it's in Mexico's economic interest to keep the border chaos-free and exports flowing north. And because the political stakes are high for Mexico in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
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Illegal border crossings have been at the center of Republican Donald Trump's campaign.
Immigration has been seen as one of Democrat Kamala Harris' weakest flanks. If Mexico lifted its checkpoints and eased its enforcement, it could sink Harris and buoy Trump, whose campaign has played on American fears and frustrations at the border.
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