Ortega is Using Migrants as a Way to 'Attack' the US
Biden border crisis
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From our Bureau of Lovely Neighbors Of course, these hordes of migrants don't jump to the U.S. border all the way from Nicaragua. Once they get to that Central American hellhole, they have to trek through Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Those other nations, especially Mexico, are co-conspirators in the creation of this humanitarian crisis. And
The Nicaraguan government has chartered over 400 flights to ferry migrants from Haiti and Cuba in an effort to "weaponize" migration against the U.S.
The government of Nicaragua is using large U.S.-bound migrant waves coming through his country to force sanctions relief out of President Joe Biden.
"The Ortega government knows they have few important policy tools at hand to confront the United States, ... so they have armed migration as a way to attack," Manuel Orozco said.