Mexican cartels and the government that tolerates them
Walking down long, ornate hallways, across a grand central courtyard adorned with a Pegasus-topped fountain, and through yet more corridors, our bipartisan delegation was guided to the offices of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for what we hoped would be a timely and useful meeting for our nations. Since the enactment of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), ongoing trade issues continue to flare up, and since the beginning of the Biden Administration our southern border with Mexico has deteriorated into a chaotic, dangerous, and lawless morass.
In the days leading up to this meeting, Americans were kidnapped and killed in a border town, record seizures of deadly fentanyl were made, elements of the Mexican military and state police invaded and took over corporate facilities owned and operated by U.S.-based companies, and we were notified that mass illegal immigration, driven by Mexican drug cartels, was again reaching historically unimaginable numbers. It was with these important issues in mind that we made last week’s trip to Mexico City to visit with the president of Mexico.
Perhaps it was too ambitious to believe our next-door neighbor, and largest trading partner, would be open to a discussion about how we could better work together for greater economic and national security. Certainly, we not only want a valued and honest trading partner in Mexico, but also to count them as an ally against nations, and multi-national organizations, who are hostile to free and democratically elected governance. Unfortunately, over the course of the three-hour meeting with President López Obrador, it became abundantly clear that none of these mutually beneficial objectives were of any interest to him.
Rather than meaningfully engage with our delegation, which included Jason Smith, the newly elected Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, López Obrador sought to lecture us about the frailty and corruption of the United States, blame American families for the rise in fentanyl poisonings, and denigrate American farmers for not being up to Mexican standards. There were multiple instances where we interrupted his rambling and unhinged screed to point out widely accepted facts like Mexican drug cartels disguising fentanyl as candy or lacing it into commonly used medications such as Adderall or Xanax, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of unwitting American kids. To López Obrador, none of this mattered.
I have long said that when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them. In this respect, the meeting with López Obrador was all too revealing. He made it very clear he is not interested in a true partnership with our nation. He could not have cared less about how Mexican drug cartels have killed more Americans than we lost in the Vietnam War. And he certainly has no objections to the Mexican military and police authorities forcefully confiscating the capital investments and facilities of U.S. companies doing business in Mexico. Simply put, with President López Obrador, there is no rule of law in Mexico and Americans are unwelcome.
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Biden has facilitated and enriched the cartels that are killing thousands of Americans with his open borders policy. While Trump's policies got control of the border, one of Biden's first policies upon taking office was to reverse those policies that were working. Biden has been the cartels' best friend. His refusal to defend the US border is a reason for his impeachment.
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