Apprehensions on the U.S.-Mexico border in February hit levels unseen since mid-2019, and were the highest for that month in 15 years, data reported by Reuters showed.
Joe Biden may be the very best friend Mexican drug cartels and other organized criminal gangs south of the border have, at the moment. The border surge has created land-office business for smugglers and human traffickers who are overwhelmed by people looking to make it over the U.S. border.
“They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden the morning after a virtual meeting with his U.S. counterpart on March 1. “We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next.”
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