Mexican President Blames Biden for Current Border Crisis

By Jess Smith First Posted: Mar 25, 2021 07:10 AM EDT

As the crisis continues at the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed his fingers towards President Joe Biden as the reason behind the border's turmoil even after Biden promised better treatment.

At a news conference on Tuesday, the Mexican president said the expectations that Biden has set to migrants encouraged people from his country and migrants from Central America who wanted to cross the border, thinking that it is easier to do under the Biden administration.

López Obrador added that the reason behind the migration was not because of a vacation but due to necessity. The Mexican President's comments came after the meetings between officials sent by Biden and their counterparts in Mexico on Tuesday.

The officials tackled immigration, regional development, and their humane response to the immigrants as Biden directed them before leaving the country, The New York Post reported.

The newly appointed Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle, Ricardo Zúñiga, accompanied the White House's lead adviser on the border, Former U.S. ambassador Roberta Jacobson, and Juan González, who is the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere, in their trip to Mexico.

According to Daily Mail, the Mexican government released a statement sharing that the meeting of the U.S. delegation with Marcelo Ebrard, who is the Foreign Affairs Secretary of Mexico, had tackled humanitarian actions to spur an inclusive economic development in the northern portion of Central America.

Ebrard mentioned that Mexico shares the same goal with the U.S. in developing the region by addressing migration. He also emphasized that if they persevere and act together, they can achieve a future with more possibilities with other countries.

In recent years, the Northern Triangle was the largest source of migrants arriving at the southern border of the U.S.

The Northern Triangle, which is composed of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, has been hit by two major hurricanes late last year and continuously plagued by the corruption and violence from the countries' roots.

Biden's Promise

The Biden administration has recently spoken about sending a $4 billion developmental aid for Central America. U.S. and Mexican officials both want to protect the human rights of migrants while ensuring their safety and orderly migration.

Also, they want to reduce the push factors driving migrants out of their countries and focus on the economic side of the issue addressing corruption, Fox News reported.

An associate professor in history at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Gladys McCormick, shared that while top officials of the Biden administration were employing a more diplomatic approach compare to Trump's, the delegation sent out by the U.S. wants to have some Mexican muscle in doing the dirty work, as they want immigrants to be apprehended before reaching the southern border.

Biden's seemingly more humane approach in handling immigrants and asylum seekers is creating confusion and misinformation to those who want to cross the border.

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