into doing something that neither of you want to see happen. mexico has a very similar problem, overwhelmed with people who are applying for asylum. police forces are overwhelmed. the shelters are totally overwhelmed and as mexico s government s struggles to keep up, the journey has become even more perilous for the migrants will makes it so dangerous is the fact that there are threats really on all sides on the one side violent drug cartels who have found a cruel new way to make money. you will see organized crime moving increasingly into the trafficking of migrants the smuggling business has become even more lucrative than dealing fentanyl for migrants. it can be just as deadly when cartels can t extort migrants for monday they often just kill the people if kidnapped another danger often mexican authorities sometimes corrupt sometimes inept sometimes lethal in march 2023, a fire broke out at a migrant detention center migrants were left blocked in the cells killing doze
anchoring across cnn platforms you re going to see no more of me for a bit. but i m omar jimenez. we ll see you again next week on may 13, 18, 46 the united states declared war on mexico president james polk, claimed that america had been attacked but in reality the invasion was a brazen land and grab american troops made it all the way to mexico city and the u.s. next to much of today s western united states the future founder of the republican party and illinois congressman named abraham lincoln passionately opposed the war but today s republicans have mexico in their sights. once again back when he was president donald trump as defense secretary, market esport if he could launch missiles at mexico s drug cartels without mexico s permission and then blame the attack on another country we. could do it quietly. trump said, no one would know it was us esper told him the idea was ridiculous an act of war against one of america s biggest trading partners but trump would not ba
been able to do that. the senior officials i ve talked to say what s going to happen later today, right now, perhaps somewhat overlooked story line, but going to be remembered as one of this president s crowning foreign policy achievements, the way he has helped bring has to nations japan and korea, rivals for a long time together here, and he had, as one aide put it to me, help from kim jong-un and xi jinping along the way because those threats have forced an urgency among these nations to come up with a security agreement and bolster american influence in the pacific and they made progress with islands off the philippines in recent weeks as well. a lot of momentum for the u.s. they believe the chinese economy is slowing. the one note of concern as i send it back to you here, is there is a slight concern xi jinping seeing everything go poorly he will look to bolster his standing, grip on power, resorting to chinese nationalism. does that mean a play on taiwan at some point? that makes
From Monday to Thursday, some 400 members of the Communist Party's all-powerful Central Committee gather in Beijing behind closed doors, in a meeting that is widely expected to hand Chinese leader Xi Jinping a third term in office.