“in five days this administration solved the issue, five days,” she said, referring to the first week since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office”
If this is true and the flow gets choked off down there, we should see apprehensions at our border drop off a few weeks later, as the ones already in the pipeline in Mexico run out.
In the first week of the new Mexican Administration (first week in December), we actually saw a surge in apprehensions at our border. That could have been an effect of the Federales clearing out the caravan camp in Tijuana (which they did relocate ten miles from the border, and put under Federal control), as well as flushing out other groups.
There clearly was some significant activity, but it remains to be seen if it is really significant for real results, or more for looks. They might just force the human smugglers to keep group sizes to no more than a busload, forbid media coverage, and pass them through more discretely.
The numbers over the next few weeks will tell the tale.
If President Trump/Jared Kushner really cut a deal to get them to fix a big part of the problem, that would be a major achievement, because AMLO (the new Mexican President) is a pretty hard-core Leftist, who ran as a proponent of unrestricted migration as a human right.
When you’ve got ‘em by the trade agreement, their hearts and minds will follow...