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Weekly Report - 22 April 2010 (WR-10-16)

MEXICO: US double policy towards Mexico

US policy towards Mexico increasingly operates at two, almost contradictory, levels. At the federal level the administration of President Barack Obama is generally supportive of the efforts of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa against the drug gangs. There are even some officials in the administration who want the US to become more involved in the Calderón government's fight, but it is clear that the US has not decided, yet, that this is the right policy to pursue. The second-level policy towards Mexico is more “bottom-up", and is driven by the fears of US citizens living in border states that the violence that has erupted along the Mexican side of the border this year will either spill over into the US or, perhaps more likely, drive more Mexicans to seek sanctuary in the US.

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