A look at how Mexico has worked with the Biden admin on immigration….

Trump has been selling the idea that immigrants are attacking america….

he doesn’t want to reveal that Biden , working with Mexico has cut back border crossings by roughly 50%

the legal migrants in the streets are the result of Texas Gov Abbott exporting migrants tO Democratic cities and states

Mexico has intercepted nearly 1 million migrants this year — a record high as it has ramped up policies that reduce migration to the U.S.

Why it matters: President-elect Trump has threatened to impose tariffs that he says would force the country to “act” to stop the flow of migrants.

• But Mexico has been increasingly doing just that — though some experts say it’s not a viable long-term fix for the problem of unauthorized immigration to the U.S.

Case in point: While interceptions in Mexico have doubled in a year, in the U.S. they have gone down by a quarter.

What they’re saying: “Mexico has been very active and served as a buffer between the United States and at least Central America — but, really, almost between the United States and the rest of the world,” says Carin Zissis, a visiting fellow at the Wilson Center and editor-in-chief of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas Online.

• Data from Mexico’s Interior Ministry shows encounters with thousands of people from as far away as Senegal, India and other parts of Africa and Asia.
• “A series of agreements with the U.S. and policies have made Mexico become essentially the waiting room” for migrants originally headed to the U.S., says Luciana Gandini, who coordinates a seminar on displacement, migration and repatriation at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM).

By the numbers: The number of encounters in Mexico of people without visas or migration permits reached about 925,000 cases from January through August of this year, per the most recent update to the Interior Ministry’s migration data hub. Some of the migrants were removed from Mexico, while others were placed in shelters, though it’s unclear how many.

• This year’s number of encounters is more than double the number for all of 2023, which had already set a record. Mexican authorities had an average of 115,000 migrant encounters per month through August.
• During Trump’s first term, Mexico recorded an average of about 10,000 migrant encounters per month. There were about 33,000 a month during Biden’s first two years in office……

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