On Thursday, President\nBiden hosted a meeting with his regional counterparts, Prime Minister Justin\nTrudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico. No\ndoubt, the three leaders had many important things to talk about: Soaring\ninflation, runaway energy costs, COVID, supply chain snarls, climate change, to\nname just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oddly, the border crisis was not on the list<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s not a real focus, this time around, on our borders,\u201d an unnamed administration official said leading up to the talks. When reporters asked about the Remain in Mexico policy, the official said that \u201cit\u2019s not actually one of the themes or focuses of [the meetings].\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.7 million people were apprehended\nlast year coming across the border from Mexico, with no sign of abatement, and\nthat is \u201cnot a real focus\u201d of discussion when Joe Biden sits down face to face\nwith the president of Mexico? And it is not as though immigration didn\u2019t come\nup at all at the trilateral summit. President Lopez Obrador found time to give\nBiden kudos for his efforts to enact a sweeping illegal alien amnesty (because\napparently, the president of Mexico is not shy about weighing in on a domestic\nU.S. policy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPresident Biden, no\npresident in the history of the United States has expressed as you have such a\nclear and certain commitment to improve the situation of the migrants and thus\nI wish to express my acknowledgment,\u201d Lopez Obrador commended. \u201cAnd I\nparticularly refer to your proposal to regulate the migratory status of 11\nmillion people who live and work honestly in this great nation. I hope that you\nhave the support of Congress and the members of both Democrat and Republican parties.\u201d\nIn fact, Lopez Obrador wants our border open even wider. \u201cWhy not study the\nworkforce demands, the labor demands and open the migratory flow?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For his part, President\nBiden urged his Mexican counterpart to join him in a \u201cjoint investment\u201d to \u201caddress\ntogether the root causes of migration in Central America.\u201d Somehow I doubt the\n\u201cjoint investment\u201d will be a 50-50 arrangement, or that any of us will live\nlong enough to see poverty, corruption and crime eradicated in the sending\nnations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is hard to sympathize with Vice President Kamala Harris. But given that her boss does not think that the border crisis should be \u201ca real focus\u201d of discussion with the president of Mexico, perhaps she and her political allies have a point that the president is setting her up to fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday, President Biden hosted a meeting with his regional counterparts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico. No doubt, the three leaders had many important things to talk about: Soaring inflation, runaway energy costs, COVID, supply chain snarls, climate change, to name just a few. Oddly, the<\/p>\n