Mexico’s president is worried that Biden’s asylum policies are encouraging illegal immigration and the business of human trafficking along the border with the United States. “They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden the morning after a virtual meeting with his U.S. counterpart on March 1, according to Reuters. “We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next,” Obrador added. The number of illegal crossings at the southern border has steadily risen since October 2020. The number of encounters at the southwest border between October 2020 and January was 296,259, an 79.6 percent increase from 164,932 for the same period a year earlier, according to data from the CBP. Encounters soared to 100,441 in February alone, approaching the 15-year high of …