Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the U.S. border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume Joe Biden was still president, so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?

Mexico also recently balked at allowing the landing of a U.S. transport plane returning its nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.

Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?

After four years of Biden’s appeasement, Mexico seems to assume it has a sovereign right to encourage the flight of millions of its impoverished citizens illegally into the U.S. and further assumes it can fast-track millions of Latin Americans through its territory and across the U.S. border.

Mexico either cannot or will not address the billions of dollars of raw fentanyl products shipped in — mostly from China — and then processed for export to the U.S. by its cartels across a non-existent border.

Mexico seems to have little concern that some 75,000 Americans on average die from mostly Mexican-imported fentanyl each year — more deaths in just the........

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