Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
It’s darkly amusing that Sheinbaum would cite U.S. statistics to make this point, because Trump does not allow that the reality depicted by our own data even exists. During the fall campaign, Trump endlessly repeated the lie that our “open” border is getting obliterated by a world-historical invasion, even as apprehensions plummeted and matched levels sometimes seen during Trump’s presidency. The latest numbers show that in November, apprehensions hit a new low under Biden and sank lower than some months under Trump.
Those numbers are relatively low partly thanks to Mexico. Adam Isacson, who tracks migration for the human rights group Washington Office on Latin America, put together a chart using Mexican government data that illustrates the point. It shows that Mexican forces have been apprehending tens of thousands of migrants traveling to the U.S. through Mexico each month (and sometimes over 100,000) up through August, the last month of available data:
Despite the bluster about tariffs for “not doing enough to stop migration,” the security and migration forces of #Mexico (green, hasn’t reported September-October yet) now encounter, in their territory, as many migrants as U.S. forces do at the border. pic.twitter.com/dPlERTr9sQ
— Adam Isacson (@adam_wola) November 26, 2024
As Isacson shows, another big thing keeping illegal border crossings down is Biden’s CBP One app, which allows migrants to make appointments to enter temporarily via various programs in an orderly, lawful manner. (Trump will also end that program, nixing something that’s contributing to reductions in crossings, because his paramount goal isn’t border security, it’s fewer immigrants here.)
