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Total misrepresentation of the facts, thereDid you even read the article you posted? It’s not quite making your point…
So, NBC “obtains” numbers from some unnamed source, but does at least have the journalistic integrity to say Mexico doesn’t release the numbers. Also touting numbers before known upticks is a little disingenuous but hey….
It doesn't "publicly release" the figures but they are shared with U.S officials. The numbers on the Mexican side of things (the same that are shared with the U.S) were discovered by hackers who were unable to hack them from the US Government's own files because of superior protections. These figures were then very publicly shared online and verified as correct. The hacked sources were emails TO the US gov't. from their Mexican counterparts.
And then there's this:
Both Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, recognized the severity of the problem at the end of last year when Mexico’s funding to stop migrants ran low and the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border surged to record highs.
At the end of December, Biden held a call with López Obrador and sent Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Mexico to meet with their counterparts. Since then, Mexico has interdicted at least 270,000 migrants each month.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...imes-as-many-migrants-as-last-year-rcna146821"President Biden and President AMLO have developed a relationship in which they talk about the shared challenges [of migration], and they both jointly recognize the shared challenges,” a senior Biden administration official said. “They’ve had multiple conversations and multiple calls over the last couple of years tackling and talking about this issue.”