Although I admit that there are lucky cats and dogs that eat better than many people, I believe that the intention of Republican Senator John Kennedy was not only to denigrate us with his “truth”, but to make it clear that thanks to the fact that they buy us merchandise annually for 400 billion dollars, dollars (the data is from the senator himself) we must do what he asks of us: let the US armed forces come in and take over the cartels.
It is interesting that, in a single sentence, the aforementioned senator has managed to combine racism, arrogance and contempt for all forms of diplomacy. It will be said that the message was intended for the Biden administration as part of the campaign that has already started despite the time remaining until the election (2024). The worst thing is not these types of phrases from Republican politicians, but the mentality behind it and that has an effect on a significant part of the American population that subscribes to it.
But Senator Kennedy is not alone. Last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, proposed (and passed) a tough immigration law that cracks down on irregular immigration and entrenches a controversial relocation program. Of course, at the time of signing it into law, he attacked the Democratic president. De Santis is a contender for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
But perhaps the politician who has radicalized the most in the face of the migration problem is the governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott. He not only has a virulent anti-immigration speech, but has reinforced his border with Mexico with the Texas National Guard and helicopters. It was he who made the decision to load undocumented migrants on trucks and send them to New York. He is also running for the Republican presidential nomination.
In Mexico, this type of expression causes outrage and is used by President López to lead a nationalist speech in which he calls on Mexicans who vote in the United States not to vote for this class of politicians. However, this call is for the domestic market because it has no effect beyond the borders, as Carlos Puig illustrated in his Milenio article published yesterday in which he showed that a good part of the Hispanic population of Texas voted in favor of of Abbott on his re-election.
President López has managed to build an image of a nationalist leader who defends us against Yankee “imperialism”. In fact it is not so. Since the Trump days, he has been docile on immigration. Mexico became the facts on the wall of Trump and Biden. It contains migrants in the south and in the north, but also in miserable conditions. We insist on the death of 40 migrants in Ciudad Juárez in the current six-year term as a sample of what is happening.
This week, after the call between presidents Biden and López, the Mexican president assured that Mexico will also send more elements of the National Guard to reinforce its southern border. When asked if he was part of an agreement with the United States, he insisted that it had been a sovereign decision. Hours later, the US secretary Alejandro Mayorkas contradicted him, assuring that it was part of an agreement and a request from Biden. This is a sample of what actually happens.
AMLO has achieved, in exchange for giving in on the immigration issue, that the United States is not very insistent on other issues, such as energy in which the talks are stalled and a commercial panel has not been called to analyze Mexican policies in the subject. In short, in exchange for being an immigration retaining wall, the US government turns a blind eye.
The migration problem is a ticking time bomb worldwide. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has pointed out that the number of people forced to flee their homes has been increasing year after year in the last decade, reaching historic levels. Despite this, it continues to be treated as an issue in which developed countries see it in terms of encroachment or breaking their laws. In other words, the displaced, refugees and migrants must be returned to their places of origin, regardless of wars, violence or poverty.
In the Mexican case, AMLO speaks of a new Mexican dream in which social programs and his policy of hugs, not bullets prevent nationals from migrating. lies. The figures are there and break historical records: the year before, the US deported more than 600,000 Mexicans; last year, more than 800,000 and so far this year there are more than 300,000.
The Mexican dream is a nightmare.
