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Opinion: Mexico: Friend, enemy, neutral, or something else?

Photo/Gregory Bull/The Associated Press / Construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico.
Photo/Gregory Bull/The Associated Press / Construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo/Gregory Bull/The Associated Press / Construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico.

Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?

Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.

Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?

After four years of Biden’s appeasement, Mexico seems to assume that it has a sovereign right to encourage the flight of millions of its own impoverished citizens illegally into the U.S. and further assumes that it can fast-track millions of Latin Americans through its territory and across our border.

Mexico either cannot or will not address the billions of dollars of raw fentanyl products shipped in – mostly from China – and then processed for export to the U.S. by its cartels across a nonexistent border.