The Biden administration has recently relied on Mexican authorities to reduce the number of migrants reaching the U.S. southern border and is finalizing plans to reinstate a Trump-era policy that requires asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico.

But one senior U.S. official said during a background call with reporters on Wednesday that, “There’s not a real focus, this time around, on our borders.”

Instead, administration officials said the talks with Mexico’s delegation, which includes President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, will center on regional cooperation to address the “unprecedented displacement” of migrants in the Western Hemisphere.

The delegations will discuss efforts to mitigate poverty, violence and other “root causes” of migration that prompt migrants to leave their homelands, U.S. officials said. The talks, the officials added, will also focus on proposals to expand work visas, refugee spots and other legal immigration pathways for would-be migrants, including victims of trafficking.

An administration official said Thursday’s summit will be an opportunity to “lock arms with Canada and Mexico” which, along with the U.S., are “three of the top destination countries for migrants and asylum speakers” in the Americas.

This is the first time since 2016 that the leaders of North America’s three largest economies, dubbed the “Three Amigos,” have convened in a summit.

Administration officials told reporters this year’s meetings will also concentrate on economic cooperation; the COVID-19 pandemic (the U.S. has donated almost 11 million vaccine doses to Mexico alone); and efforts to address the climate crisis.

Mr. Biden’s sweeping legislative agenda and proposals for electric vehicle production in the U.S. have also been among those putting his policies at odds with his North American counterparts, especially López Obrador — his new energy initiative relies on state-owned companies and their higher utilization of coal.

Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, acknowledged there could be policy disagreements among the three countries.

“Our perspective is that we are going to have positive results,” he told reporters Wednesday. “We have an optimistic vision of this meeting. It does not mean that an issue cannot arise where there are different positions, but it does mean that it will be a positive environment.”

While the trilateral discussions will be likely more expansive, the bilateral meetings between Mr. Biden and his cohorts could be where issues like immigration will be hashed out, according to a senior White House official.

López Obrador is also slated to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tasked earlier this year with overseeing U.S. efforts to address the factors that fuel migration from Central America.

Even though U.S. officials said border policy will take a backseat during Thursday’s sessions, recent developments have highlighted Mexico’s powerful role in the U.S. addressing unauthorized migration to the southern border.

One administration official said the ongoing negotiations over the court-mandated revival of the Remain-in-Mexico program will not be “the subject” of Thursday’s summit.

But on Monday, Blas Nuñez-Neto, the top Homeland Security official overseeing border policy, said the U.S. was “close to finalizing” the negotiations over the policy, which the Trump administration used to require 70,000 migrants to wait in Mexico for their hearings on their requests for asylum in the U.S.

“We anticipate that the remaining issues will be resolved shortly and that reimplementation will begin within the coming weeks,” Nuñez-Neto said in a court declaration.

Mexico has also recently ramped up efforts to reduce the number of migrants heading to the U.S.

Apprehensions by Mexican immigration officials increased sharply in August and September, a trend that ran parallel with a steady decrease in migrant interdictions along the U.S. border, government data from both countries show.

Mexico recently agreed to U.S. requests to impose stricter visa requirements for Ecuadorians, who were apprehended in record numbers along the southern border this summer. In October, U.S. border officials reported a sharp decline in apprehensions of migrants from Ecuador.

Mexico’s government has also accepted the return of hundreds of thousands of Mexican and Central American migrants expelled by U.S. border officials under the coronavirus-era Title 42 policy, which the Biden administration has retained.

Asked about Mexico’s immigration enforcement efforts, a senior Biden administration official reiterated that Thursday’s talks will focus on addressing root causes of migration from Central America and southern Mexico.

“We know that with Mexico and with all governments in the region, we have to find ways that we can collaborate on migration management, on enforcing our immigration laws,” the official said Wednesday. “But as I mentioned, it’s not actually one of the themes or focuses of tomorrow.”

Camilo Montoya-Galvez
Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the immigration reporter at CBS News. Based in Washington, he covers immigration policy and politics.

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A new migrant caravan left the southern part of the Mexican city of Tapachula on Thursday and started to move towards the north during the time when the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with the US President Joe Biden in Washington to discuss immigration issues and other concerns. President López Obrador believes that the latest movement of the immigrants has sparked an urgency to discuss the region’s migration with Biden, The Washington Post reported.

As per the report, the recently attempted migrant caravan has nearly 2,000 immigrants, largely from Central America and Haiti. The migrants exited the southern Mexico border, carrying their belongings in little knapsacks or packages on their heads with small children riding on the shoulders of their parents or in prams.

Among the immigrants in the attempted caravan, a Honduran refugee named Alex Leyva claimed he was making his second try to move towards the north in a caravan. As per The Washington Post, Levya stated that he had traveled with another group for the first time on October 23, but as he became ill, he had to pull out. He informed that the Mexican immigration officials sent him to Tapachula, where he had previously gone through the process of requesting refuge in Mexico. In the meantime, as the immigrants proceeded toward the city’s boundaries, local police had maintained traffic, but officials made no initiative to stop them from moving forward.

Migrants demanding valid documents to have access for traveling across Mexico
Furthermore, Luis Garca Villagran of the Center for Human Dignity stated that the immigrants are seeking valid documents which would allow them to travel across Mexico. To ease strain at the US border, the Mexican administration has relied on a policy of limiting immigrants in the nation’s southernmost regions. Villagran went on to say that even those immigrants who have already gotten humanitarian visas that enable them to move in Mexico were stopped by immigration officers and deported back to Tapachula.

Immigrants held near the Guatemalan border in Tapachula have grown increasingly angry with the delayed processing of their asylum applications. They express dissatisfaction with their inability to obtain jobs that will allow them to support their family which has instigated such movement from south to north, The Washington Post reported.

In addition to this, one of López Obrador’s top concerns for Thursday’s North America Leaders’ Summit was tackling the immigration crisis in the region. He has urged the Biden administration to engage in investing in the extension of a tree-planting program that compensates farmers for growing specific types of trees on their property. According to him, the money will permit the poorest people in the rural area to stay on their property rather than being forced to leave and migrate due to economic pressures.

Need for new camps
Meanwhile, as per AP, recently a dismal camp for migrants wanting to ask for asylum in the United States was raided by roughly 250 police officers and city personnel under the US policy, in which the migrants were given the option of registering for credentials or leaving.

The camps, which are crammed with small children, are the result of the US policies that require immigrants to stay in Mexico for U.S. immigration court hearings or will prevent them from obtaining refuge under pandemic-related public health authority. Uncertainty over US asylum procedures has aided the growth of immigrant communities in Mexican border cities, resulting in the need for new camps.

Source: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/new-migrant-caravan-sets-off-from-southern-mexico-border-as-obrador-biden-begin-talks.html

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mobile Field Force officers met them in riot gear and used concrete blocks tipped by concertina wire to block the onslaught mid-bridge as many of the migrants chanted “Biden! Biden!” Many demanded they be let in to live in the United States while they pursue asylum claims, instead of waiting in Mexico as required under various policies of President Donald Trump.

But with Trump still presiding, the blocked migrants with Biden on their minds were forced to listen to a recorded message broadcast over loudspeakers in Spanish and English warning that any further trouble would be met by force, arrests, and prosecution. That went on until the crowd dispersed at about dawn on December 30.

A source told the Center for Immigration Studies that CBP and Mexican authorities on the international bridge to the Del Rio, Texas, port of entry broke up another, smaller migrant formation demanding U.S. entry. Otherwise, the extent to which the attempted incursions occurred elsewhere along the southern border remains unclear at this time. But a question naturally arises from these events.

Do attempted mass incursions like these foreshadow a new flashpoint and tactic whereby untold tens of thousands of migrants inside Mexico can quickly test the new Biden administration on its many campaign promises of a kinder and gentler approach toward them? It bears watching.

Broader Implications of the Mass-Incursion Tactic for Incoming President Biden

This was not the first time CBP under Donald Trump has forcefully responded to surging migrants hoping to overrun the port of entry at El Paso and will almost certainly not be the last there or elsewhere.

Especially not now, judging by the chants and media interviews on the Paso del Norte Bridge this time about Biden’s many immigration promises heard widely throughout the Americas and beyond, including an amnesty bill, an end to deportations, and reversal of Trump immigration policies during his first 100 days in office. While sharp analysts like my CIS colleague Mark Krikorian judge that Biden is likely to slow-boil the frog on some of his immigration promises for pragmatic political reasons, what was said on the international bridge during the recent confrontation confirms that migrants don’t necessarily pay close attention to in-the-weeds political timing so much as big, broad, and directional messages.

The migrants on that bridge showed up with high expectations that the coming Biden administration somehow had already managed to swing open the gates as promised, never mind that Trump still has a few weeks to go.

The Mexican newspaper El Sol de Parral quoted Enrique Valenzuela, head of the Chihuahua State Council for Population and Migration, who was at the bridge last week, as saying a false social media rumor that the Americans would start letting migrants pass through that night easily sparked the event. He said that happened because “there is expectation, there is hope and there is enthusiasm in them [sic] who believe that with the change of administration comes new measures and that they will immediately enter and there will be new conditions that will allow them to request asylum.”

Raul Pino Gonzalez of Havana was quoted at the bridge saying: “They should let us pass. We are calling out to Mexico and the U.S. and to Biden, the new U.S. president, to remind him of the presidential campaign promises he made. To make him aware we are here.”

While events like this have happened before, time and place make these fresh mass-entry attempts very different. At issue with the mass-incursion tactic is whether the new administration will show similarly stiff, riot-gear resolve toward follow-on attempts, or let them pass to avoid the look of forceful confrontation.

In this Hobson’s choice, the Biden administration would face the politically bitter prospect that violent confrontations would be among its first interactions with migrants. Should the administration choose the obvious alternative of letting such groups pass on the bridges or elsewhere, it would naturally follow that any successful breach would only inspire more, which could quickly spiral into a nationally hurtful border crisis, given the vast populations of frustrated, angry migrants in Mexico and far beyond at the moment.

A Large Reservoir of Frustrated Migrants in Mexico Pulsing with Biden Hope

While the exact number of migrants pooled up in Mexico is not clear, the reservoir of people who would enter through any first breach is clearly vast and deep.

Several Trump policies that Biden promises to reverse have forced economic migrants who’d use the asylum system to attain American prosperity to wait in Mexico since the summer of 2019. One of those policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols (also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program), has returned some 70,000 mostly economic migrants to Mexico to wait for their mostly meritless asylum claims to process, preventing them from disappearing inside the United States after judges inevitably decline those claims.

The Trump administration has required other migrants to remain in Mexico under a separate policy known as “metering”, whereby they are individually invited over to lodge an asylum claim so as to avoid swamping processes at the ports of entry. More than 5,500 Cubans entered that line in 2019 in Juarez alone. Some of those on the bridge last week appeared to still be in the metering program but under the additional burden of a third policy.

The third policy is pandemic-related, where new asylum claims have been slowed to a crawl, and Border Patrol agents who apprehend migrants immediately return most to Mexico so that detention centers cannot become Covid-19 incubators. (These are known as Title 42 expulsions.)

As many as an additional 100,000 more — beyond the 70,000 migrants in the MPP “Remain in Mexico” process — have chosen to apply for Mexican asylum as their means to wait for Democratic Party relief.

Under new Mexican requirements resulting from the U.S. blockages, migrants were compelled to apply for Mexican asylum to avoid deportation, while waiting for a kinder and gentler Democratic administration. The Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) reported that 36,454 migrants had applied for Mexican asylum during the first 11 months of 2020, mostly from Honduras, Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador, and Venezuela. That’s in addition to more than 62,000 who applied after Trump’s policies went into effect during only the latter half of 2019, COMAR officials told CIS in January 2020.

“None want to stay in Mexico,” Alma Delia Cruz, head of COMAR in Tapachula, Mexico, told me a year ago. “This is just their first chance to get into the United States, of course. The threats from Trump can’t deter them from eventually getting into the U.S.”

As I pointed out in a recent blog post, pandemic border closures south of Mexico have bottled up untold thousands more “extra-continental” migrants from a hundred countries around the world. These ones are pooling in Suriname, Guyana, Panama, and Costa Rica, likewise keeping a sharp eye and ear out for any wavering of American resolve further north.

The Havana Times newspaper quoted a Cuban migrant couple in the large “Por la Libertad” U.S.-bound caravan temporarily stopped in Suriname as saying they joined it when Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election as their big chance to chase the American dream.

No matter how the arithmetic works out, a vast human reservoir is dammed up behind floodgates that will soon be under the control of a Biden administration. What the incident on the bridge between Juarez and El Paso showed most is that the Biden administration may well have to choose much sooner than expected between either the stick and status quo for a while or the carrot and a mass migration crisis at the border.

Source: https://cis.org/Bensman/Migrants-Chanting-Biden-Attempt-Rush-Border

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According to fresh media reports, this caravan hopes to leave San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on January 15, which in the unlikely event it can get past Guatemala and Mexican pandemic-related border closures, seems timed to reach the U.S. southern border by Biden’s January 20 inauguration. Reuters reports that the caravan is being organized on social media, including one Facebook group that boasts more than 5,500 members who exchange tips and advice on how to reach “paradise” in their journeys north.

Caravan formations — and dispersals — have increased as the incoming Biden administration promises to undo Trump’s deterrence-focused illegal immigration policies and to immediately propose an immigration reform bill to the new Democratic Congress that likely would provide amnesty for millions of illegally present immigrants. Such talk has energized the universe of aspiring illegal immigrants, such as up to 400 Cubans who stormed the international bridge between Juarez and El Paso on December 29, chanting “Biden! Biden! Biden!” while demanding to be let in.

Probably Not in Time for Biden to Open the Gates

However, like those Cubans already in the U.S.-Mexico border vicinity and a failed caravan that Honduran police broke up in December, this new-forming one may also still have picked a premature departure date, as it will still face pandemic-related border closures in Central America and Mexico, and a U.S. border that will still be under the sway of President Trump’s tough policies for some weeks or months.

As I have often noted, at issue with the caravans is that when a first one finally succeeds in crossing the American border, many more will no doubt follow through the breach and quickly lead to another mass surge and humanitarian crisis there.

The mass-migration caravans that first came into vogue in late 2018 are favored because for a time (long before any hurricanes) they successfully delivered thousands of Central Americans over the U.S. border by overwhelming authorities, detention facilities, and normal asylum system processes.

In addition to their successful human deliveries onto the U.S. side of the border, the caravans were far cheaper and safer for the migrants than hiring smugglers. Eventually, though, a variety of Trump’s policies forced Central American governments and Mexico to break up at least five large caravans in late 2019 through December 2020 and posed a credible threat that any who reached the southern border would be promptly pushed back into Mexico.

One of the most effective Trump arrangements was his push to force Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to station 6,000 Mexican national guard troops on that country’s southern border with Guatemala. The deployment has broken up several major caravans and deported their participants back home on buses.

But President-elect Biden and Obrador in December discussed a new more “humane strategy” to address regional migration. Little in the reporting of this meeting suggests what may become of this key troop deployment.

Blaming Hurricanes Now?

But while many American news outlets now ascribe migrant motivations to recent hurricanes that struck Central America, the truth is that, long before those fall 2020 weather events, aspiring border-crossers like the Cubans have often cited as their main motivation an acute awareness that U.S. Democrats under a Biden White House would undo Trump’s deterrence policies and swing wide open the gates to them.

Furthermore, untold thousands of aspiring “extra-continental” U.S. border-crossers are coming from countries further south and from around the world that those hurricanes did not strike, but who have found themselves slowed by pandemic border closures.

For instance, the Havana Times newspaper quoted a Cuban migrant couple in the “Por la Libertad” caravan temporarily stopped in Suriname as saying it formed as a result of Biden’s November 3 election win.

Media coverage of any predicted mass-migration crisis at the southern border will no doubt choose the hurricane narrative, rather than the fact that Biden’s campaign promises on immigration have excited and animated the vast world of aspiring migrants to charge the border in caravans or from Mexico. But that explanation is disingenuous in the face of chants like “Biden! Biden! Biden!”

Source: https://cis.org/Bensman/Yet-Another-Caravan-Forming-Test-American-Border-Resolve

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Lopez Obrador also thanked his U.S. counterpart for a less “discriminatory tone” during his visit, a reference to Trump’s past insults toward Mexico and its migrants.

“We thank him for not raising the subject (of the border wall) in public,” Lopez Obrador told reporters at a news conference, adding that the wall was mentioned during a White House dinner “but without the purpose of imposing anything.”

During dinner, attended by industry leaders, Trump joked that he had behaved himself and not mentioned the wall in their public engagements, Mexican newspaper Reforma reported, citing diplomatic sources.

Lopez Obrador said the issue was not raised because it was agreed the meeting would focus on common ground.

The summit mostly focused on economic issues, in particular the celebration of a revamped North American trade accord that took effect this month.

Dating back to his successful 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made the construction of a wall on the country’s southern border a signature pledge, while also promising to force Mexico to pay for it.

His administration has constructed new sections of high fencing along the roughly 2,000-mile (3,220-km) U.S.-Mexico border.

The Mexican president was sharply criticized on both sides of the border for meeting with Trump just four months before U.S. voters go to the polls to decide if the Republican president seeking reelection will win a second term.

Overall, Lopez Obrador hailed his Washington trip as a success. He said Trump had an open invitation to visit Mexico, but that such a trip was not currently possible due to the ongoing U.S. presidential election campaign.

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Salvadoran migrant Carlos Gutierrez, part of a caravan of mostly Hondurans heading to the US, puts his shoes on at the international border bridge which links Tecun Uman, Guatemala and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on January 21, 2020.  JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images

In a statement Monday, the Mexican government accused the caravan’s leaders of directing migrants to cross the river without considering how it would endanger children and other vulnerable members of the group. Five National Guard members sustained injuries as a result of Monday’s scuffle, the government said.

It’s not clear how many migrants were injured, but reports have indicated that at least some were. The Mexican government said it has provided medical care, including hospitalization, to migrants who have requested it, including some who appeared dehydrated.

Although some Hondurans intend to remain in Mexico and find jobs, most of those in the caravan are seeking transit through Mexico in the hopes of reaching the US border. It’s a signal that as long as violence and economic instability continues to drive Central American migrants out of their home countries, they will continue to seek refuge in the US — no matter how much the Trump administration pressures other nations to stop them.

What will happen to Hondurans in the caravan

As reports surfaced that a caravan was en route to the Mexican border last week, López Obrador had vowed that migrants could either request a work permit to remain in southern Mexico legally or claim asylum, but would not be permitted to travel to the US. Now, however, it appears that at least some of the migrants will be deported.

With the aid of the National Guard, Mexican immigration authorities sent over 400 of the migrants who attempted to cross the border to immigration detention facilities, where they will be screened to determine whether they have the right to remain in Mexico or will be sent back to Honduras. Women and children will be deported via plane, whereas others will travel via bus, according to the Mexican government.

As is standard practice in Mexico, those who claim asylum will be released from detention and processed by the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR). The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), which has recently expanded its presence in Mexico to eight offices, has agreed to help COMAR identify migrants with asylum claims, a spokesperson for the agency said.

Honduras produces high numbers of people seeking asylum: In 2017, the most recent year for which data is available, the US granted asylum to 2,048 migrants from Honduras, compared with 1,048 from Mexico, 3,471 from El Salvador, and 2,954 from Guatemala.

Honduras remains a hotbed of gang violence, largely perpetrated by the international criminal gang MS-13, which formed in Los Angeles and was transplanted to Central America following mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants with criminal histories in the 1990s. The gangs facilitate drug trafficking, extort local residents, and force teenage boys to join.

The country also has the fifth-highest homicide rate worldwide, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as rampant government corruption and high rates of violence against women and LGBTQ individuals.

Hondurans likely won’t be able to seek asylum in the US

Migrants’ chances of evading Mexican authorities and being granted asylum in the US remain slim.

They may be returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). More than 56,000 migrants have been sent back to await decisions on their US asylum applications.

The Trump administration has also brokered a series of agreements with Central America’s “Northern Triangle” countries — Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras — that allow the US to send migrants back to those countries, though the agreement with Guatemala is the only one that has gone into effect so far.

The agreements resemble “safe third-country agreements,” a rarely used diplomatic tool that requires migrants to seek asylum in the countries they pass through by deeming those countries capable of offering them protection (though the Trump administration has been reluctant to use that term). Until recently, the US had this kind of agreement with just one country: Canada.

The administration has sought such agreements in Central America as a means of achieving Trump’s goal of driving down the number of migrants seeking refuge at the US-Mexico border by sending them back to the countries from which they came and passed through. Immigrant advocates argue that doing so could have deadly consequences.

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/21/21075158/mexico-guatemala-border-crossing-honduran-migrants

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Homan spoke of the massacre of nine Americans on Monday as innocent mothers and children were ambushed and killed by drug cartel gunfire. The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director told “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday that the crime and corruption in the country cannot be handled by Mexican President Obrador alone.

“The Mexican criminal cartels control everything on the northern border of Mexico,” Homan said. “No criminal activity, no alien smuggling, no drug smuggling occurs without the cartels blessing [and] approving the plan.”

In the wake of the brutal murder of the Americans, President Trump called on Mexico to join the U.S. and “wage war” against the cartels until they are wiped “off the face of the earth.”

But in a press conference on Tuesday,  Obrador turned down the offer.

“If the Mexican government can’t protect Americans inside Mexico we may have to take matters into our own hands,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in response to the Mexican leader’s remarks.

“There’s more to this story than we know,” Homan said, citing his “gut feeling” after 30 years of experience, and asserting that Mexico needs the help of the U.S.

“A lot of the law enforcement in Mexico, a lot of the military are corrupt, Homan said, responding to the record number of deaths in the country over the last few months.

“They need our help, they need our expertise because American investigators, like the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, they can dismantle these organizations by attacking their transportation infrastructure, attacking their financial infrastructure,” he explained. “Because once you attack their money, you dismantle this organization.”

Homan also contended that the U.S. demand for drugs from Mexico had to be stopped as well, noting that violence is “always going to be part of the drug trade.”

One issue the former ICE director believes is not getting enough attention is what he explained will become another border crisis for the U.S. as the violence in Mexico continues to increase. A determination by the courts that Mexico is no longer a “safe third country” will put an end to the current “Remain in Mexico” policy the Trump administration enacted which has asylum seekers waiting for their day in U.S. immigration court on the Mexican side of the border.

“We’re going to have our border numbers skyrocket again because we can’t hold people in Mexico waiting for their hearings,” Homan explained. “Once the word gets out, you’re going to see the numbers explode” as Mexican nationals will demand asylum in the U.S.

The Trump administration announced a new annual cap on the number of refugees last weekend, sending the left into a meltdown. But, as a conservative commentator and author Michelle Malkin noted in an op-ed in BPR on Wednesday, critics need to “get some perspective.”

“Past refugee admissions don’t lock America into those same levels now or in the future. America’s constitutional duty is to Americans first (‘ourselves and our posterity’),” Malkin wrote. “The truth is that we’ve been generous to a ruinous, open borders fault. Last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform tallied refugee resettlement costs to taxpayers at nearly $9 billion over five years.”

There is no doubt that if Mexico’s president fails to rein in the cartel violence in his country, Homan’s predictions about a new crisis at the southern U.S. border will likely come to pass.

Source: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/11/06/tom-homan-has-chilling-warning-mexico-massacre-is-exactly-why-we-need-the-wall-849337

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