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When this idea was first proposed it was deemed to be a non-starter right out of the gate. The President wanted migrants presenting themselves at the US border with Mexico to wait in that nation while their applications for entry were processed since detention facilities to hold them on our side of the border were strained well beyond capacity. The previous Mexican administration wanted nothing to do with it and the liberal cohort on our side of the border described it as inhumane.Now, with AMLO in office, we’re seeing yet another shift in policy. The Mexican government seems to be...

The State Department’s decision to warn residents about travel to the resort cities “is a reality check for the booming towns and economy of Mexico,” he said. Mexican officials have gone to lengths to portray the country’s beach resorts as family friendly and safe. Violent incidents “are extremely rare among the millions of international tourists who visit Riviera Maya each year, and the entire tourism industry works to ensure the safety and satisfaction of all visitors,” reads a statement on the website of the Assn. of Riviera Maya Hotels. But 10 years into the country’s military-led drug war, violence is...

A radical Muslim cleric banned from two different countries snuck into the United States through Mexico, affirming several reports that Middle Eastern terrorists regularly enter the country through the porous southern border. The Tunisian imam (Said Jaziri) has an international criminal past. Jaziri once led the largest mosque in Montreal where he advocated Sharia. Increasingly, a growing number of Islamic extremists are slipping into the U.S. from Mexico from terrorist nations like Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan. In 2007, the top Homeland Security official in Texas confirmed that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda had been...