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Blinken Suddenly Wants to Talk to Mexico About Border Crisis – HotAir

Earlier this month, I wrote that President Joe Biden could make rapid progress toward addressing the border crisis he created by working with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a cooperative fashion, just as Donald Trump did. AMLO has plenty of tools at his disposal that would allow him to significantly reduce the flow of migrants before they reach our doorstep. I’m not going to try to take credit for this latest development, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading a delegation to Mexico today to do just that. Unfortunately, AMLO isn’t ready to issue a blank check to the Biden administration regarding this issue. He has some conditions that he plans to inform Blinken about, specifically the need for the US to work more closely with Cuba and Venezuela to shut down some of the flow of migrants at its primary sources. (Associated Press)

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