(ProsperNews.net) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has threatened to unleash yet more chaos at the US southern border if President Biden does not give in to a long list of his demands. These include giving billions to South American nations, lifting sanctions on Venezuela, and ending the embargo of communist Cuba.
López Obrador took credit for a drop in border crossers through December and January and said he would reverse those actions if the US refused his requests. Asked if his words amounted to blackmail, he said, “I am speaking frankly. We have to say things as they are.”
In December, the Mexican leader announced he was “working together” with President Biden to reduce numbers at the border and had sent planeloads of illegal immigrants back to their home nations.
The President, who is in the final stretch of his 6-year term, told Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes that Donald Trump is “bluffing” when he says he will build a wall along the US-Mexican border. He won’t build it because “he needs Mexico,” Obrador claimed. He added that walls don’t work and the relationship between America and Mexico is too important and mutually beneficial for either President Trump or Biden to jeopardize it.
Republicans have reacted with outrage to López Obrador’s latest remarks. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an outspoken critic of open border migration, said the Mexican leader’s words were a “bribe.” The Georgia lawmaker described the current relationship between America and its southern neighbor as a “war.”
Rep. Beth Van Duyne from Texas agreed with her Georgia counterpart and said that during the Trump administration, Mexico “helped us fight the cartels and stop mass illegal immigration,” but now, she continued, “Biden is all too happy to sell out American border security.”
Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida also added his voice, saying the Mexican President is dictating border policy to the Biden administration. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas claimed Biden continues to “roll over” to foreign leaders.
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