At the end of last year, a very reluctant Biden administration released immigration reports that showed the extent of the damage done to US security. Part of that report showed that in 2021, BP busted more than 4,100 Russian immigrants trying to cross into the US illegally at the Mexican border. That should have been a huge red flag as the US typically sees less than 500 a year.
I’m bringing this up because it was my first thought when I read that Mexico’s President rejected calls for sanctions against Putin and slammed efforts to censor the deranged Russian President.
The Hill reported:
“Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Tuesday his country won’t impose economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
“We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all the governments in the world,” López Obrador said at his daily news conference.
López Obrador was internally criticized for his reluctance to condemn the unprovoked invasion, with initial official Mexican reactions calling for dialogue between the parties.”
Meanwhile, other countries, including the US, have frozen Russian assets, seized property, and applied stiff sanctions.
The announcement from López Obrador came just a day after he and the Mexican tourism minister said that Mexico would not follow the EU in blocking Russian airlines from landing at airports in the country, according to Mexico News Daily. Over the weekend, Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco also posted a widely criticized series of tweets showcasing various statistics about Russian tourism in Mexico and the money that has come into the country related to tourism from Russia.
The Mexican president also criticized what he considered to be censorship of Russian state-owned media, as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit and YouTube have all taken steps in recent days to combat misinformation or propaganda regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, including halting advertising revenue from being distributed to several Russian state-owned outlets.”
I don’t think I need to explain what the hell this should be a massive concern as Mexico remains one of our closest neighbors and supposed ‘ally’ but clearly supports Putin to some capacity.
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