Mexico

The way news is presented today is like reporting on an iceberg. The ten percent exposed is what is reported and before there is time to look beneath the waves the next berg comes along and there is a new story. Case in point. Trumps relationship with Mexico. During his campaign Trump made several negative remarks about Mexicans that the press jumped all over but after he was elected they went on to bigger things. Trump and Mexican President Obrador developed a good working relation despite Trump's insistence on a wall because Obrador liked Trumps trade policies. Obrador was a center left populist and Trump a center right populist during a period when populism was gaining strength. The two built a relationship based on their respect for each other's nationalist, authoritarian tendencies and their ability to stay out of each other's way on domestic issues. Obrador agreed to keep asylum seekers in Mexico and put Mexican troops on their southern border. The result was a deep reduction in the number of illegal crossings. The new NAFTA helped Mexico to further interwine with US manufacturing and greatly increased imports from Mexico especially food products. This closeness will be of great benefit as the US is in the process of bringing jobs home from Asia and Mexican workers will be and important part of the onshoring.