1. What problem does Democratic Mayor Bruno Lozano of Texas border town Del Rio have with President Biden’s label for the huge surge of illegal immigrants coming across the border since Biden implemented his own border policies?

2. a) What did Mayor Lozano ask President Biden to do in a video he sent to the White House last month? For what reason did he make this request?
b) What help did Lozano receive?

3. For what reason was the huge surge of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. completely predictable, according to Mayor Lozano?

4. a) Define condone as used by Mayor Lozano.
b) What is the Biden administration condoning, according to Mayor Lozano?

5. Read about an Arizona border town under “Background” below. What is your reaction to Mayor Riggs’ concerns?

6. Watch the videos of Texas Mayor Bruno Lozano and Arizona Mayor Chris Riggs under “Resources” below. Both mayors have expressed great concern over the lack of covid testing being conducted before releasing the migrants into their communities.
a) How confidant are you in the Biden administration’s ability to handle the threat of covid spread by untested migrants?
b) What is your opinion of the double standard between the covid testing and protocols President Biden has for Americans (students, employees, federal offices, etc.) and the lack of covid policies his administration has for those crossing the border illegally?

7. When President Trump came into office, there was a crisis at the border. President Trump implemented new policies to get the governments of Mexico - and Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to work with the U.S. to stem the tide of their citizens attempting to cross the border into the U.S.:

• He stopped the $400 million in assistance the U.S. sends to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador: the governments then worked with us to end the mass migration.
• To gain the Mexican government’s assistance, Trump threatened to implement tariffs on cars and trucks being imported from Mexico. President Lopez-Obrador then worked with the U.S. - sending 20,000+ Mexican troops to the U.S. border to help with border control.
• He obtained the funding needed to repair and construct the border wall.
  Trump’s policies solved the problem.

From RT: President Biden has not indicated that he plans to revive any Trump-era [border] controls, but that hasn’t stopped him looking for other fixes. Instead of reinstating Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that he ended upon taking office, he sent envoys to Mexico and Guatemala on Monday to ask their governments to staunch the flow of migrants. Two weeks earlier, he pleaded privately with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for help.
Back in the US, other “fixes” include an $86 million plan to house 1,200 migrant family members in hotels near the border, and a proposal to fly migrants to states near the Canadian border for processing.

President Biden this week sent National Security Council adviser Roberta Jacobson (and others) to Mexico to meet with government officials. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said when questioned, that “part of our objective as Roberta Jacobson,...conveyed when she was in here just a few weeks ago, was that we need to work in partnership with these countries to address the root causes in their countries to convey clearly and systematically that this is not the time to travel."
(Jacobson mistakenly told migrants in Spanish during a briefing that the Southern border was OPEN until an aide handed her a note; Jacobson then corrected her statement to say, “The border is CLOSED.”)

How effective do you think the meetings between Biden administration officials and our southern neighbors will be? Explain your answer.