Within the last hour Trump issued a couple tweets rebuking Mexico for no longer stopping illegal immigrants from approaching our southern border:
I am very disappointed that Mexico is doing virtually nothing to stop illegal immigrants from coming to our Southern Border where everyone knows that because of the Democrats, our Immigration Laws are totally flawed & broken…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2019
…Mexico’s attitude is that people from other countries, including Mexico, should have the right to flow into the U.S. & that U.S. taxpayers should be responsible for the tremendous costs associated w/this illegal migration. Mexico is wrong and I will soon be giving a response!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2019
I appreciate that Trump has tried to pressure Mexico stop immigrants from coming, and there for a while it looked like they were doing it.
In fact it was at the end of April that he acknowledged that Mexico had stopped part of a 20,000 person caravan, and encouraged them to stop the rest as he promised to send more military to the border.
But I guess all of that has changed according to Trump’s latest tweets. We’ll post his response as soon as he makes it.