During a “60 Minutes” interview, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made it clear America’s illegal alien invasion will continue if the Biden administration refuses to bow to a long list of demands. Those include sending $20 billion a year to Latin American countries; lifting sanctions on Venezuela; ending the Cuban embargo; and legalize millions of illegal aliens who have worked and lived in the U.S. for at least a decade.
Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says the list of demands is coming from a country with good U.S. relations and a good trade policy with its neighbor to the north.
“It’s not exactly being a good neighbor,” Mehlman says.
Mexico is America’s biggest trading partner, with $475 billion imported into the U.S. in 2023, which outpaced manufacturing giant China by a few billion dollars.
The Mexican president’s not-so-subtle demands are putting the Biden administration in a corner, Mehlman says, because the world knows the border is wide open but now an election is coming in November.
“The president's policies on immigration are deeply, deeply unpopular with the American people,” Mehlman says. “And we certainly shouldn't be taking $20 billion of the taxpayers’ money to try to help Joe Biden get re-elected."
