Opinion | Julio Ricardo Varela: 'The only thing the Mexican government surrendered in the war of words was its dignity.' - NBCNewsTHINK
In his xenophobic eyes, there is an “invasion” at the border and it is all Mexico’s fault — and many people in this country believe him. The anti-Mexico racist trope with which he started his campaign devolved into an ongoing demand for a paid-for border wall that incorrectly painted Mexico as some lawless nation and has now turned into a diplomatic crisis from which López Obrador will not easily extricate himself.
But as powerless as López Obrador seems to be right now, Mexico still has a golden opportunity to radically change the narrative, if he would realize that siding with the United States on immigration enforcement — and essentially becoming an extension of U.S. border control — plays into the same policy that has militarized and criminalized migration in the Western hemisphere.
If López Obrador were truly a populist leftist, he would take the migration fight to the world stage. He would remind people that U.S. policies has destroyed the civic institutions and economies of the Northern Triangle — and Mexico — and that the vast majority of migrants fleeing the violence and poverty compounded by the action of the United States
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