After Four Years of Appeasement by Biden, Does Mexico Believe It Can Take Advantage of America With Impunity?

Our neighbor to the south seems to have little concern that some 75,000 Americans on average die from mostly Mexican-imported fentanyl each year.

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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the American border. AP/Edgar H. Clemente

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 an American transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.

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