The USA doesn’t like to admit that Mexico follows the lead of American policymakers. The best way for Americans to help make crossing Mexico safer for migrants is to fix our own immigration policies. Yes, there will still be big problems with Mexican cartels, but they will have fewer vulnerable people to victimize.
Exactly, and for whatever the moral obligation is worth in international politics (ask a Kurd, it’s not much), those “Mexican” cartels are stuffed full of American money they use to buy American guns and operate the way they do at least in part because of American drug laws (a lot of “drug” cartels get more money from kidnapping and other crimes these days, so that’s a bit more complicated now (like, get rid of drug prohibition overnight and organized crime would still be a problem in Mexico), but our drug laws definitely contributed to this complicated situation)
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