LYING DEMOCRAT ACCUSES TRUMP REPUBLICANS FOR DESTROYING DEMOCRACY – CHUTZPA

MSNBC panel says journalists ‘can’t be neutral’ with Republicans trying to ‘destroy democracy’

‘There is no objectivity when there is an authoritarian party that’s trying to end the protections of the press and democracy as we know it.’

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During the Wednesday night episode of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, several panelists urged mainstream media outlets to ditch “neutrality” and “objectivity” when covering Trump-supporting Republicans in order to save “democracy.”

The segment began with host Lawrence O’Donnell talking about a tweet from actor Rob Reiner which read, “A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy democracy.”

O’Donnell then asked his guests, NYU professor and former New Republic editor Peter Beinart, former Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel and former Republican campaign consultant Stuart Stevens what they thought about Reiner’s tweet and how the media should cover it, if the statement were actually true, in the context of the New York Times’ original mission statement.

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O’Donnell went to Beinart first, asking, “‘A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy democracy.’ We would, of course, prior to this period we’re living in, immediately classify that as an opinion. And a rather wild one, especially before the Trump era. But it might be a fact, and if it’s a fact, how does journalism, how does The New York Times, and publications like that, deal with it?”

Beinart answered, “But what’s important about the statement that you read about The Times’ initial founding statement, or about the Washington Post’s current statement, ‘Democracy dies in darkness,’ is that these institutions do not say that they are neutral on the question of democracy.”

He continued saying that if they’re not neutral on democracy then they can’t be neutral on Trump who is destroying democracy: “And so if one party, the dominant wing, the Trump wing of one party, is actually trying to overthrow American democracy. You as a newspaper have to be against that, you can’t be neutral on that. You can’t present both sides on that.”

O’Donnell then turned to Stengel, asking, “Is the Republican Party anti-democracy? And if so, what does Time magazine have to say about it?”

March 6, 2016: Donald Trump walks onto the 18th green for the awards ceremony following the final round at TPC Blue Monster at Trump National Doral.

March 6, 2016: Donald Trump walks onto the 18th green for the awards ceremony following the final round at TPC Blue Monster at Trump National Doral. (Reuters)

Stengel responded saying, “Well, Lawrence, I used to tell my folks at Time, there aren’t two sides to a lie. That you can’t be neutral in the face of corruption. You can’t be neutral in the face were where someone’s trying to end democracy. We can’t ignore that.”

“You can be impartial. But you cannot be neutral, you can’t be neutral and in the face of someone ending democracy. You can’t simply chronicle the end of democracy. Then that’s the end of a free press,” Stengel continued.

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He added, “There is no objectivity when there is an authoritarian party that’s trying to end the protections of the press and democracy as we know it.”

Stengel tweeted Thursday night about the subject as well, writing, “I always told my journalists, there aren’t two sides to a lie. Yes, you should be non-partisan, but not neutral. Journalists must be biased in favor of the truth and facts. Biased in favor of democracy itself. We protect the press so the press can protect democracy. Let’s do that.”

CBS CORRESPONDENT SAYS BIDEN WAS ‘BAILED OUT’ ON AIRLINE MASK MANDATE BY TRUMP JUDGE: ‘ALIENATING ALLIES’

US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Thousands of Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are flooding the nation's capital protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress.  (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. – Thousands of Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are flooding the nation’s capital protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden’s White House victory by the US Congress.  (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

During the episode, Stevens commented on whether voting for Republicans is a “vote to destroy democracy,” saying, “I really don’t see how you can argue with that because the Republican Party official platform is what Donald Trump says it should be. And Donald Trump does not believe that we live in a democracy. He doesn’t believe that Joe Biden is the legally elected president.”

O’Donnell then returned to Beinart with a question on how the media should cover candidates who questioned the 2020 election.

Beinart stated, “I think part of it has to do with this kind of stripping away the euphemism that journalists sometime rely on. And calling things by their name – not saying that Republicans ‘allege’ voter fraud … But to actually use plainer blunter language.”

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He then urged the press to “take a page from George Orwell and just say, ‘This candidate has pledged that if a Democrat gets more votes, or if nonwhite people are supportive of the candidate who gets the most votes, they will try to overturn that election.’”

Stengel agreed, saying, “As Peter said, we have to use the kind of language that journalists are not trying to use, they’re trying to be objective. But there’s no objectivity in the face of someone trying to destroy and undermine our democracy.”

    • Democrats never support what they say about Republicans, Republicans are destroying Democracy, because you can’t support lies.

MOUSECAPADE BACKFIRES

Mickey Mouse went Woke. Businesses that press for a political philosophy can commit economic suicide. Inflaming the majority of your customers to satisify the LBGTQ Community is always a bad idea. But in the case of Disney, it is worse.

Disney protested the “Gay bill” signed into law by the state of Florida, under the auspices of Governor DeSantis.  The Mouse is squealing so loud that they can hear him in the heart of Hollywood, to no avail. However, and you heard the old saying, “what goes around comes around.” In Disney’s case this is in SPADES. FILE PHOTO: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the welcome segment of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

 

Florida House passes bill stripping Disney of self governing status

The bill now heads to the governor’s desk

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would dissolve Walt Disney World’s special governing power in the state.

The move could have huge tax implications for Disney, whose series of theme parks have transformed Orlando into one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and serves to further sour the relationship between the Republican-led government and a major political player in the state.

FLORIDA SENATE PASSES BILL STRIPPING DISNEY OF SPECIAL SELF-GOVERNING POWER

BIDEN’S HUSTLE – GETS DEMOCRATS TO PLAY THE SHELL GAME

That uneasy feeling every time you fill up has caused Americans Blood Pressure to rise in tandem with inflation. Bet your arse hurts too – pummeled by the Democrats.  Feels like POTUS is turning the screws harder and harder, doesn’t it? Is your bank account bleeding?

Let us be the first to tell you that Democrats don’t care one thing about the bottom third of wage earners, yes, the ones who overwhelmingly voted for him. Once they get your vote, that is it, Charlie. See you in four years, Sucker. By then, your memory has forgotten the screwing you took. So they come out with a new agenda, disguised as such, but the same old stuff, you jump on the bandwagon, take the prone position porky we want to hear you squeal like a pig. You will love the band playing your tune – which is “freebees for all.”

Oh yeah, forgot, the Shell game is often played on street corners by confidence men.  They find a mark, he is the sucker; a group of shills stands around flashing money they claim to have won, but you can’t win playing the Shell game; it is for fools. And of course the actual Shell game consists of three shells and a pea ; in real life it ropes in those Democrat Voters time in and time out. They never win; they don’t stand a chance, but think they still have one, so they continue to play.  

 

FROM AXIOS – SLAUGHTER IN 2024

Apr 19, 2022 – Politics & Policy
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Democrats’ worst Trump nightmare

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There’s something much worse than losing the House, and possibly the Senate, that’s rattling top Democrats who are studying polling and election trends:

The big picture: It’s the possibility of a re-elected President Trump with a compliant, filibuster-proof Senate majority in January 2025.

Why it matters: It’s impossible to forecast elections. But you can look at the states with Senate elections in 2024 and see why some Democrats are sounding the alarm.

“Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster,” Yale’s Simon Bazelon wrote last week on Matt Yglesias’ Substack, Slow Boring

  • “The 2024 map is much worse,” Bazelon added.
  • A close presidential election, he wrote, could doom Democratic Sens. Jon Tester in Montana … Joe Manchin in West Virginia … Sherrod Brown in Ohio … Bob Casey in Pennsylvania … Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin … Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona.
  • Plus toss-ups could threaten Sens. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan and Jackie Rosen in Nevada.
  • In all those states, hardcore liberalism is a tough sell.

Then factor in that most of the GOP senators who stood up to Trump and his brand of politics will be gone: Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who are retiring after this term, and former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona.

  • Now toss in the widespread belief in both parties that the House majority will be lost by Democrats in 2022 — and maintained, if not expanded, in 2024.
  • Plus perhaps the most worrisome indicator for Democrats on the political dashboard: The party’s edge with Hispanic voters has shrunk.

So you see why John Anzalone, President Biden’s campaign pollster, recently told a Politico podcast this is “the worst political environment that I’ve lived through in 30 years of being a political consultant.”

There are several ways Democrats could overcome the GOP’s decisive map edge:

  • Dems could nominate a presidential candidate who wins decisively — with a clear majority. That typically lifts party candidates in close races.
  • Or the GOP could nominate a presidential candidate who can’t command a majority, or unelectable Senate candidates. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell warns anyone who’ll listen that if the GOP keeps putting up fringe candidates, the party will blow an epic opportunity.

The bottom line: David Shor, one of Democrats’ most respected data scientists, has been sounding the alarm for months. “Unless we see big structural changes in the Democratic party’s coalition,” he tweeted, the 2024 outcome could be “Donald Trump winning a *filibuster-proof trifecta* [House, Senate, White House] with a minority of the vote.”

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to change “veto-proof” to “filibuster-proof” in the second paragraph.

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DEMOCRAT BLOOD BATH NOVEMBER 8

CRT – AFGHANISTAN – INFLATION – IRAN – RUSSIA – CHINA- INFLATION and OPEN BORDERS are all on the ballot come this November.

This is  a WINNING TICKET for the Republicans. Hopefully, they won’t f.ck things up. Predictions of a 60 seat gain in the House are within grasp. However, the Republicans have 21 Senate seats up for grabs. Democrats are defending 14 seats, two which are open seats. Currently there are 50 Republican seats. So of the 21 up for grabs, we need to win them plus one. Based on Sabato’s Crystal Ball, Republicans can win 23.  This includes Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Nevada

Check the latest updates below provided by Ballotpedia

 

U.S. Senate race ratings were last updated on: April 12, 2022
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Alaska Solid Republican
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Alabama Solid Republican
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Arkansas Solid Republican
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Arizona Toss-up Toss-up Toss-up
California Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
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Colorado Likely Democratic
Solid Democratic
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Connecticut Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
Safe Democratic
Florida Lean Republican
Likely Republican
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Georgia Toss-up Toss-up Toss-up
Hawaii Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
Safe Democratic
Iowa Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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Idaho Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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Illinois Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
Safe Democratic
Indiana Solid Republican
Solid Republican
Safe Republican
Kansas Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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Kentucky Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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Louisiana Solid Republican
Solid Republican
Safe Republican
Maryland Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
Safe Democratic
Missouri Solid Republican
Solid Republican
Likely Republican
North Carolina Lean Republican
Lean Republican
Lean Republican
North Dakota Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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New Hampshire
Lean Democratic Tilt Democratic Lean Democratic
Nevada Toss-up Toss-up Toss-up
New York Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
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Ohio Lean Republican
Solid Republican
Likely Republican
Oklahoma Solid Republican
Solid Republican
Safe Republican
Oregon Solid Democratic
Solid Democratic
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Pennsylvania Toss-up Tilt Republican Toss-up
South Carolina Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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South Dakota Solid Republican
Solid Republican
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Utah Solid Republican
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Vermont Solid Democratic
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Washington Solid Democratic
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Wisconsin Toss-up Tilt Republican Lean Republican

DIFFERNCE BETWEEN JIMMY CARTER AND JOE BIDEN

Both of these presidents, one former, the other will become  one come January 2025, sacrificed the interests of the United States in the name of peace. Little did they know that PEACE COMES WITH STRENGTH, WAR COMES WITH WEAKNESS

We seem to forget as time goes by, but history doesn’t always disappear. Jimmy Carter was sort of an outsider, of course he was the governor of Georgia, but against long odds, this Dark Horse won the Democratic nomination for president in 1976. He went on to defeat Gerald Ford. Carter, like Biden, gave a “free out of jail card” to all draft evaders; Biden is giving a “free out of jail card to all country invaders.

And like Biden, Carter stroked the fires of inflation and stagflation all at the same time. The only difference here is that unemployment surged under Carter. Can we expect this from Biden? Only time will tell. However, Carter new of the threat from the Soviets where Biden was blind to their menace. Both faced Afghanistan during their tenure. Russia invaded, Biden “cut and ran.”  Carter boycotted the  Russian Olympics, while Biden cheered.

However, Carter was weak on Iran, therefore paving the way for the hostage crisis. This led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan. Biden is determined to hand over to the Ayatollahs $150 billion by once again signing on to the JCPOA. Carter hated Jews, loved pseudo Palestinians as does Joe Biden. By signing off on the agreement, of course with Russian approval, Branden is assuring that a nuclear conflict will arise in the Middle East. It can be stated that Biden is reiterating the words of the Mullahs, “to wipe Israel off the map.”

. So the overall difference between the two is quite evident, Carter actually new what he was doing, Biden doesn’t have a clue

But our hats off to Jimmy Carter for he is 97 years old; overcoming brain cancer which is a miracle in itself. We don’t despise Carter as a Human Being, but take issue with his activism, philosophy and ways – these led to his ultimate defeat.

 

“LOCK HER UP” HEARS THE FOOTSTEPS – BLOOD DRIPPING FROM HER HAND

The lying scurrilous scum of human excrement, with a mouth filled with streams of diarrhea that flow with vitriolic diatribe, has now become TARGET 1 on John Bull Durham’s hit list. The footsteps are closing in on this Three Time Loser.

Don’t forget that if she defeated our Beloved Trump, not only would the biggest Cloak and Dagger operation be squashed, but the Deep State Operatives who were part and parcel of this “HIT JOB” would  have seen their careers elevated if the Russian Hoax was buried for good. However, “ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME” and in this case we see the Blood Trail following her.

Soon, because their life is at stake, ONE COURAGEOUS insider will step up and provide the evidence to indict her and prove to America, the lengths she went through, trying to become president. All of this, as we now know was with the FAKE NEWS MEDIA being complicit in the HOAX OF THE CENTURY.

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Durham says CIA found data alleging Trump-Russia plot was ‘user created’

WAR ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT – DRUG CARTELS HAVE THEIR WAY – BIDEN OPENS THE GATES

Mexican Cartels Fly 9,000 Drone Flights into U.S. to Surveil Law Enforcement Operations

Mexican drug cartels have conducted more than 9,000 drone flights into U.S. airspace in the last year to surveil American law enforcement and security operations in the southern border region, a senior Homeland Security official told Judicial Watch this week. The drones are observing federal, state, county, and city agencies near the Mexican border, including the U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard, county sheriffs and local police. The Border Patrol, which operates under Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has captured about a dozen of the drones, and accessed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) guidance and memory systems to gain intelligence information, according to a high-level official at the agency.

Judicial Watch learned about the Mexican cartel drone incursions during a recent visit to the southern border and specifically while interviewing federal officials at the CBP Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas. Judicial Watch is further investigating the matter and has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with CBP, the 60,000-member agency charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S., for all records regarding the use of drones by criminal organizations operating along the U.S.-Mexico border for the purpose of surveilling U.S. law enforcement officials or otherwise facilitating illegal activity. The federal public-record request includes, but is not limited to, all information depicting the known or estimated number of instances of the use of such technology, as well as all reports, intelligence assessments, analyses, or similar records related to their use.

Federal officials on the ground tell Judicial Watch that the cartels use the UAV surveillance flights to facilitate human smuggling and drug trafficking. Specifically, they help identify gaps in border coverage and assist the cartels in overwhelming certain areas to create a diversion for moving sensitive or high value loads through alternate border locations. The data analyzed from the confiscated drones has also provided U.S. authorities with other law-enforcement sensitive information that cannot be made public, government sources said, adding that drug cartels started using the devices a few years ago. Brandon Judd, the president of the union representing the nation’s 20,000 Border Patrol agents, told Judicial Watch the drones are also used to smuggle small amounts of drugs into the U.S. “They are dropping fentanyl,” Judd said this week. “They fly into certain locations, drop them to the ground and fentanyl is taken off of them and they take back off into Mexico.” The drones are not military grade, Judd confirmed, but rather “run of the mill” that can be purchased anywhere.

Reports of Mexican cartels using UAVs to enhance their illicit operations began surfacing within the last few years. In fact, three years ago agents in the El Paso sector around 750 miles from the Rio Grande Valley revealed in a news report that they had witnessed what they believed to be the first use of a drone by a Mexican cartel to act as a “look-out.” In the story CBP officials from the El Paso sector are quoted saying that agents “discovered a new tactic in counter surveillance,” referring to the UAV. An agent monitoring the border with an infrared camera discovered the drone traveling north into the U.S. from Mexico, the article states. Last year Mexico’s largest newspaper reported that some of the country’s most notorious cartels, including Jalisco Nueva Generación, used drones with explosives to attack police in the western part of the country. Back in 2018, an academic study found that cartels use drones to look for Border Patrol agents and inform drug smugglers of their positions. The research focused on the complex security landscape of military drones for border security and non-state actors with sharply diverging motives to develop their own drone surveillance capacities.

Exclusive: ‘Migrant president’ Biden stirs Mexican angst over boom time for gangs
By Dave Graham

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government is worried the new U.S. administration’s asylum policies are stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime, according to officials and internal assessments seen by Reuters.

Migrants are pictured after a protest at the Mexico-U.S. San Ysidro port of entry to ask U.S. President Joe Biden to allow them to apply for asylum, in Tijuana, Mexico March 2, 2021. Picture taken March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Ever since President Joe Biden won the White House vowing to undo the hardline approach of his predecessor Donald Trump, Mexico has both looked forward to an end to migration burdens imposed by Trump, and braced for a new influx of people.

Detentions on the U.S border have surged since Biden took office on Jan. 20. Mexico has urged Washington to help stem the flow by providing development aid to Central America, from where most migrants come, driven by a humanitarian crisis.

“They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden the morning after a virtual meeting with his U.S. counterpart on March 1.

“We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next.”

Previously unreported details in the internal assessments, based on testimonies and intelligence gathering, state that gangs are diversifying methods of smuggling and winning clients as they eye U.S. measures that will “incentivize migration.”

Apprehensions on the U.S.-Mexico border in February hit levels unseen since mid-2019, and were the highest for that month in 15 years, data reported by Reuters showed.

Among U.S. steps Mexico worries are encouraging migration are improved support for victims of gangs and violence, streamlining of the legalization process, and suspension of Trump-era accords that deported people to Central America.

Recent Mexican policies are also encouraging migration, according to one assessment. It saw potential fillips in measures such as offering COVID-19 vaccines to migrants, as well as better protections for undocumented children.

One Mexican official familiar with migration developments, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said organized crime began changing its modus operandi “from the day Biden took office” and now exhibited “unprecedented” levels of sophistication.

That includes briefing clients on the latest immigration rules, using technology to outfox authorities, and disguising smuggling operations as travel agencies, assessments showed.

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“Migrants have become a commodity,” the official said, arguing they were now as valuable as drugs for the gangs. “But if a packet of drugs is lost in the sea, it’s gone. If migrants are lost, it’s human beings we’re talking about.”

Mexico’s security ministry, foreign ministry and national migration institute did not reply to requests for comment for this story. The White House and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Higher concentrations of migrants in border areas have encouraged gangs to recruit some as drug mules, and kidnap others for money, said Cesar Peniche, attorney general of Chihuahua, the state with the longest stretch of U.S. frontier.

Both Mexican and U.S. policy should be more clear-cut so as not to spur illegal immigration, he told Reuters.

Mexico has praised Biden for offering a pathway to citizenship to millions of U.S. residents of Mexican origin, and for rolling back Trump-era policies that sent U.S. asylum seekers back into Mexico to await their court hearings.

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To avoid detection, migrants now often travel in small groups instead of caravans, and increasingly follow more dangerous, less well-trodden routes, the Mexican official said.

Communicating via social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube, smugglers update migrants on impending checkpoints, when freight trains they can jump on pass, where to stay and how to navigate immigration laws, the official added.

To ease their passage, smugglers advise Central American clients to register complaints with authorities saying they have been victims of extortion or, for young men, that they have faced death threats from street gangs, the assessments show.

And, as in previous years, migrants are being told to bring along children to make it easier to apply for asylum.

Mexican intelligence shows smugglers’ transit costs vary widely. One assessment said an unaccompanied Central American minor could secure passage to the U.S. border for about $3,250. By contrast, for African travelers, the rate was $20,000. Asians must also pay more.

One evaluation set out concerns there could be a significant influx in migrants from outside the region – the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Middle East – as coronavirus-led border restrictions begin easing.

Even as Mexicans hail Biden’s cancellation of work on Trump’s border wall, some officials say it is time Mexico returns to an idea the government raised in 2019: improving the infrastructure along its own southern border with Guatemala.

“Mexico spends more on every new wave of migrants than that would cost,” said another official. “We have to do it.”

Reporting by Dave Graham; Additional reporting by Sofia Menchu in Guatemala City and Alexandra Alper in Washington; Editing by Rosalba O’Brien

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