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Sputnik International
Crackdown on migrants
April 23, 2021
In mid-March, Reuters reported that Mexico would “restrict movement on its southern border with Guatemala to help contain the spread of COVID-19.” The same article noted that the Joe Biden administration in the United States would be simultaneously sorting the details of a plan to loan Mexico coronavirus vaccines.
According to White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, the simultaneity had nothing to do with a quid pro quo to stanch so-called ‘illegal immigration’ and was instead the result of ‘multiple layers’ of conversations between the US and Mexico.
But there is no time like a pandemic to intensify the crackdown on poor, US-bound migrants. I have been in Mexico since the onset of the health crisis last year, and no effort has been made to ‘restrict movement’ of incoming tourists and other humans of superior value who have arrived by plane – many of them from coronavirus hotspots such as the US itself.
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19 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman has conceded that Central American countries have not made “commitments” to stem the northward migration, despite her April 12 claims.
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Special Assistant to the President for Immigration for the Domestic Policy Council,Tyler Moran first claimed April 12 to have won “commitments” from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala to deploy more border guards to stem the U.S.-bound migrant flows within their territories.
That same day, Breitbart News learned from comments buried in a report by the Associated Press (AP) that Honduras and Guatemala had indicated that they had not officially agreed to any deal.