The Federalist
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Ruben Navarrette : $118 billion border bill would cement into law nearly 2 million illegal immigrants every year .
He says Mexico is not a partner, not a friendly neighbor with whom we can cooperate to solve this problem.
He asks: Why would Mexico agree to allow hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into northern Mexican border towns after they’ve already crossed into the U.S. would create massive problems for a country already beset by record-breaking violence and crippling levels of corruption.
Sinaloa has helped consolidate electoral victories for AMLO’s left-wing Morena party in the last two election cycles.
Julian Zelizer : AMLO has pursued a policy of placating the cartels and disavowing the drug war — “hugs, not bullets,” as he put it on the campaign trail in 2018 .
He says if AMLO is going to cooperate with the Biden administration to reduce the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. at the expense of the cartel networks with which he is politically allied, he's going to want compensation.
Zelizer says Republicans need to make a more forceful case for going to war with the cartels.
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