Sunday night’s episode “60 minutes” Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO, proposed a plan to solve America’s immigration crisis. It’s very simple. The United States need only commit to providing $20 billion a year to end poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lift all sanctions and embargoes on Venezuela and Cuba. and granting amnesty to “law-abiding” Mexican illegal aliens.
You can’t make something like this up.rapidly failed state Countries to our south insist that it is the duty of the United States to solve the immigration problem that Mexico itself is creating. Because, frankly, 85% of America’s border problems wouldn’t exist if Mexico had refused to serve as a yellow brick road for immigrants seeking a new life in Yankee territory. Because I’m deaf.
AMLO needs to portray the United States as a source of both push and pull factors that influence immigration patterns.
This is nothing new. AMLO is just parroting it. standard story This is popular among anti-borderist and globalist elites. The poverty and squalor in Mexico, Central America, and South America have nothing to do with local greed, corruption, and incompetence. American capitalism and imperialism are responsible for all the bad things the developing South is experiencing. Therefore, the United States should inject large amounts of cash into declining countries to magically transform them into well-run democratic republics.
If U.S. funds create a utopia, Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and others will never want to leave their homes again.
of course. Anyone with some knowledge of geopolitics knows that this is a house built entirely of sand and fog. It may be tempting, then, to dismiss AMLO’s low-rent Mexican Marshall Plan as the type of political ploy that only a Third World kleptocratic charlatan could produce. But there’s more going on here than just performative, political theater.
AMLO’s plan is a blatant political deception operation.
In fact, Mexico has no interest in seeing an end to the current border crisis. And that’s because Mexico’s economy is completely dependent on US dollars, which immigrants send to their families and friends in the form of “remittances.”
In 2017, Mexicans Living in the US It sent about $30 billion south of the border.of bank of mexico It is reported that that amount has increased to $51.6 billion in 2021. This means that remittances are Mexico’s largest source of overseas revenue, larger than oil and gas revenue, tourism revenue, and export sales of manufactured goods.
If illegal immigration to the United States were suddenly stopped and legal immigration reduced to reasonable levels, Mexico would immediately suffer a massive economic crisis, with the Great Depression causing a $25 overdraft in a college student’s checking account. It would look like this.
AMLO and who will succeed him when he retires in September.It is necessary to ensure the unimpeded flow of Mexican nationals leaving the country. But the country you run can only continue to function if a significant portion of the local population regularly devil worship Drug cartels have no political influence. AMLO therefore needs to portray the United States as a source of both push and pull factors that influence immigration patterns.
And the current US administration also benefits from accepting this fiction. Although the White House is the sole cause of the immediate crisis and has almost as much interest as Mexico, Solve a problemwe need to give the impression that we are doing something to protect Americans and resolve the mess along the Rio Grande.
In order to give the impression that the previous U.S. president used “crude” and “racist” methods to secure the border, the current residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have labeled themselves as masters of grand strategy and great power politics. I decided to market myself as a master. And while the AMLO program allows him to claim he is engaging in constructive immigration diplomacy through negotiations with partners and neighbors, he is actually doing everything in his power to ensure that foreign nationals who wish to enter the United States illegally.
Therefore, Obrador’s proposal on how to fix the U.S.-Mexico border is a real-life version of “.Wag the Dog” The bill would allow AMLO to appoint himself a defender of countries allegedly “victimized” by the United States, such as Venezuela and Cuba, while also allowing him to obtain a special amnesty for Mexican illegal aliens for one shilling. become. And if the U.S. government happens to inject $20 billion into Latin America and the Caribbean, that’s just the icing on the cake.
But nothing in AMLO’s plan was intended to prevent immigrants from crossing our nation’s southern border. And that’s what Mexico’s hallowed president wants.
