Last year we learned that 4,100 Russians were caught by Border Patrol trying to illegally cross from Mexico in 2021. I pointed out then that Russia was up to something and look where we are. That number should have alarmed officials—On average we have less than 500 Russians caught sneaking into the US, but the Biden crew did nothing.
Now, Mexico has made their position clear.
“Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Tuesday his country won’t impose economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
“We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all the governments in the world,” López Obrador said at his daily news conference.
López Obrador was internally criticized for his reluctance to condemn the unprovoked invasion, with initial official Mexican reactions calling for dialogue between the parties.”
Meanwhile, other countries, including the US, have frozen Russian assets, seized property, and applied stiff sanctions.
That’s not the only noteworthy problem with Mexico. Mexican politician López Obrador publicly denounced in a statement how the rest of the world has responded to Putin’s unprovoked attack of Ukraine.
“The announcement from López Obrador came just a day after he and the Mexican tourism minister said that Mexico would not follow the EU in blocking Russian airlines from landing at airports in the country, according to Mexico News Daily. Over the weekend, Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco also posted a widely criticized series of tweets showcasing various statistics about Russian tourism in Mexico and the money that has come into the country related to tourism from Russia.
The Mexican president also criticized what he considered to be censorship of Russian state-owned media, as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit and YouTube have all taken steps in recent days to combat misinformation or propaganda regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, including halting advertising revenue from being distributed to several Russian state-owned outlets.”
So yeah… Those borders. I’m afraid that acting now we will be too late, but inaction at this point is just a passive surrender.