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Biden's border team 'woke up too late,' says former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar

8/7/2026

ambassador is publicly blaming the Biden administration for ceding border politics to Republicans by acting too slowly and without a coherent strategy. Ken Salazar, who served as U.S.

Ambassador to Mexico under President Biden and previously as a Cabinet secretary under President Obama, argues in his new book "Borderlands" that the White House lacked both a comprehensive plan and a communications operation to match it.

That gap, he says, handed President Donald Trump one of his strongest political issues.

What went wrong inside the Biden White House Salazar's central charge is that the Biden administration focused too heavily on Europe and Asia while neglecting Mexico and the Western Hemisphere.

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