President Of Mexico Demands U.S. Grant 10 Million Hispanics Legal Status And $20B In Exchange For Help In Immigration Crisis

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, the President of Mexico, has made ridiculous demands of the United States in exchange for help on the southern border crisis.

Here are the demands:

1. $20 billion in U.S. Foreign Aid To Latin America and Caribbean countries.
2. Grant visas to 10 million Hispanics in the U.S.
3. End sanctions in Venezuela
4. Stop the blockade of Cuba

Each of those four demands is ludicrous in its own right.

But to demand all four?

I would venture to call that extortion.

Mexico President AMLO floats 4 point plan for US to tackle migration crisis

1) $20 billion development program for Latin America
2) Grant visas for 10 million Hispanics who have worked in the US for more than 10 years
3) Suspend the blockade of Cuba
4) Remove all sanctions… pic.twitter.com/iZiQKKYRNC

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) January 6, 2024

The folks at Fox News share more:

Lopez Obrador responded by demanding the U.S. give $20 billion to Latin American and Caribbean countries, grant work visas to 10 million Hispanics who have worked in the U.S. for at least 10 years, end sanctions against Venezuela and halt the blockade of Cuba.

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The negotiations come at a critical time for President Biden, whose polling numbers on illegal immigration have been low throughout his presidency. The U.S. also suffered a surge of migrants at the border this fall, with roughly 240,000 monthly migrant encounters at the border in late 2023.

A senior Biden administration official responded to those demands in a statement to NBC News, saying Lopez Obrador “has a very ambitious agenda. For some of these things, we would need Congress to act. We share the vision that we need to lift up the region.”

Lopez Obrador has proven more than willing to challenge U.S. politicians on immigration issues. He picked a fight with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over one of that state’s new immigration laws last month.

Discussion online has not been too friendly towards these demands:

Trump didn’t play this stupid game. He threatened tariffs on Mexico if they didn’t secure their own border, but because we now have weak ass mail-in president like Joe, Mexico feels perfectly comfortable making demands like this. https://t.co/EBl89S7lCS

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) January 8, 2024

NBC News shares more:

The two countries are expected to continue talks in Washington later this month. Mexico brings significant leverage to the negotiations, the U.S. and Mexican officials said. López Obrador’s administration would prefer that President Joe Biden win re-election in November, given Donald Trump’s rhetoric and actions during his time in office. But Biden is quickly running out of options to fix a problem that is driving down his poll numbers without increased support from Mexico, three U.S. officials told NBC News.

On Capitol Hill, negotiations over border security measures between Republicans and Democrats continue into their second month with no clear breakthrough. And new asylum policies introduced by the Biden administration in May failed to deter migrants, as evidenced by the record surge.

To bring the numbers down, the Biden administration needs Mexico to let it push more non-Mexican immigrants back across the U.S. southern border, as the U.S. was able to do through early 2023.

During the Covid pandemic, the Trump and Biden administrations used a public health order known as Title 42 to push migrants back into Mexico without an asylum screening. During that policy, which ended in May, Mexico took back migrants over 1 million times each year for three years. Under current policies, Mexico has agreed to take back 30,000 migrants per month, but that is only 10% of December’s tally.

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Mexico needs to help America curb the immigration issue, but we should NOT meet any of their demands.

If President Trump were in office, negotiations would be swiftly over, and Mexico would be cleaning up their issues.