Mexico’s president is negotiating with Trump to protect the growing population of Mexican migrants in the U.S., says expert Todd Bensman.
Mexico’s president is trying to prevent Donald Trump from deporting Mexican illegals and to preserve the huge, semi-secret migrant quota granted to the country by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies.
“We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples,” President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote to Trump in a Wednesday message.
Since 2022, Biden’s deputies have quietly admitted 400,000 extra Mexicans via the border’s official entry gates. Some have likely been deported, and some of the inflow is likely part of the border management deals cut by Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s pro-migration border chief.
The Mayorkas migration of Mexicans into the United States has been an economic boon to Mexico. “It’s a massive unauthorized work program for [migrant] Mexicans,” said Todd Bensman, who tracks migrant flows for the D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies.
Mayorkas’ deputies have not explained the deals, nor what Mexico does in exchange for the secret migration which enters via the Office of Field Operations at the border gates. The OFO is part of the Customs and Border Protection agency.
Mayorkas’ steady inflow of inadmissible Mexicans has been ignored by the establishment media, even though it can be seen in Mayorkas’ monthly reports:
Mayorkas describes his pro-migration policies as equity for migrants and good for U.S. business. But he ignores the economic and civic harm to American families. In November, his unpopular economic policy greatly helped Trump to defeat Kamala Harris.
