Mexico’s president said Friday that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States, but he wants the U.S. government to open talks with Cuba and send more development aid to migrants’ home countries.
The comments by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came a day after the U.S. announced that a delegation of top U.S. officials would visit Mexico for talks on how to enforce immigration rules at the two countries’ shared border.
Also Friday, U.S. authorities reopened two cross-border railroad crossings in Texas, while keeping operations limited or suspended at other border crossings. And figures released Friday show arrests for crossing the U.S. border from Mexico nudged 1.2% higher in November from October, one of the latest signs of what Troy Miller, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, described this week as “unprecedented” migration flows.
Tbf it’s more because of “that one time they came so close to killing us all that even Moscow stopped taking their calls over the whole debacle”
That missile crisis I think is not considered enough as a generational trauma, the absolute peak of the cold war air of “we could all be flash fried any second now…”
All our current leadership more or less watched it happen or were young enough for it to be considered recent events as they were growing up.