Mexico and Closing the Border

Mexican president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border

López Obrador called Trump “a man of intelligence and vision" and said he would warn Trump against blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the U.S.

Mexicans were offended in 2015 when then-candidate Trump claimed that, in many cases, immigrants arriving in the U.S. illegally included “criminals, drug dealers, rapists.”

And Mexico was shocked in 2019 when Trump as president threatened to close the border “for a long time” unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants from crossing. López Obrador said the two countries’ economies were so intertwined that they couldn’t bear a closure for even a month.

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Under Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency, organized crime will likely be calling the shots

In October, Mexico will have a new President, Claudia Sheinbaum. Al Jazeera says, "As Mexico now prepares for a new administration, it is safe to assume that violence, official corruption, and impunity will remain the name of the game. A woman may have won the Mexican election, but the real winner is organized crime – in every sense of the term.

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