During Biden's administration there were literally millions of migrants moving from the South American continent to the United States, through Mexico, and Mexico did very little to stop them. They just opened their borders and allowed millions of South American migrants to pass through, to their northern border. The country didn't care. Not their problem.
But now that Trump has quite effectively closed the border, Mexico has found itself in quite the pickle: While perhaps not as many, there are still massive amounts of migrants trying to enter Mexico from the south. Problem is: Now they are stuck in Mexico because the US is not letting them in.
Thus, now it's Mexico that's becoming flooded with illegal migrants from the south. The flow through has been blocked, so they are amassing in Mexico itself.
And with them, all the related problems have been skyrocketing in the country. Nowhere to house the millions of illegal migrants, increased governmental tax-funded spending to try to deal with the problem and, of course, crime rates have gone up (even more than they normally are in Mexico).
Because of this, there are currently massive protests by the Mexican people who want all those millions of illegal migrants out.
I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I completely empathize with what they are experiencing right now. On the other hand, they are now getting a taste of what their government allowed to happen to the US by not blocking the southern border.
I don't know how much of a democracy is in place in Mexico, but I assume that there's at least some form of it there. Meaning that, once again, the get what they voted for. (Although with the caveat that to my understanding the status of "democracy" is a bit on shaky grounds in Mexico, and there's a lot of corruption, so it might not be completely the fault of the Mexican people.)
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