The surge of migrants\nheading to the U.S. border has gotten so overwhelming that the president has\nfinally called for measures to get it under control. Not the president of the\nUnited States \u2013 rather it is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is\nalarmed at the chaos playing out on the border between his country and ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can\u2019t be tackled from one day to the next,\u201d Lopez Obrador urged<\/a>. Not only is President Biden\u2019s near total gutting of U.S. immigration enforcement wreaking havoc on our side of the border, but it is also emboldening criminal cartels<\/a> in Mexico and endangering the lives, health and safety of people in his country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey see [Biden] as the migrant president, and so many feel they\u2019re going to reach the United States,\u201d Lopez Obrador cautioned. For migrants, that means a free pass into the United States and for the criminal cartels that move migrants from all across the globe<\/a> through Mexico to reach the United States, it means huge profits. For Lopez Obrador, richer and more powerful criminal cartels are a threat to the government\u2019s control of the country, and for ordinary Mexican citizens who might get in the way it could mean far worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, back in Washington, the Biden administration insists that there is no crisis<\/a> \u2013 rather a \u201cchallenge\u201d that they have \u201cmade significant progress\u201d addressing. On Wednesday, President Biden sent his Southern Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson<\/a> out to answer questions from the media (because he won\u2019t answer them himself), who continued to insist that what is going on is no big deal. Don\u2019t believe your eyes, or even the alarming data about the number of people (many of them unaccompanied children) crossing the border. \u201cPerception is not the same as reality,\u201d Jacobson insisted, as though all of those people and overflowing detention facilities were mere figments of our imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, Lopez Obrador is not the only one raising alarm about the situation at the border. Local officials in the border regions of Texas \u2013 many of whom are Democrats \u2013 are not only alarmed, but pointing fingers<\/a> directly at the White House for creating not a \u201cchallenge,\u201d but a full-blown crisis that they simply cannot manage, and pleading with President Biden<\/a> to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether the Biden administration is in denial, or they just plain don\u2019t care, when the president of Mexico and elected officials of your own party are telling you to cool it, perhaps it is time to start listening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The surge of migrants heading to the U.S. border has gotten so overwhelming that the president has finally called for measures to get it under control. Not the president of the United States \u2013 rather it is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is alarmed at the chaos playing out on the border between<\/p>\n