The Mexican government views the crisis affecting its border with the United States as an invasion of its own southern boundary, according to a senior U.S. lawmaker.

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Mexico City this week and told the Washington Examiner that Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador had shared a growing frustration with how the immigration crisis was affecting his country.

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