On the same day that the Republican Senate was sworn in and the GOP majority of the House was increased, Obama received Mexican Presidente Enrique Pena Nieto for a friendly chat about erasing America’s borders and sovereignty. It was just an accident of scheduling, surely, not a petulant act of an extreme President whose policies were rejected last November by the voters.

The meeting was certainly convenient for both. The US President got a friendly guest who wants the same thing that Obama wants — open borders and a firehose stream of future Democrat Mexicans into in this country. Nieto got an opportunity for flattering photos from in the White House, plus a welcome break from months of political battering at home. Last February, Time magazine hailed him as “Saving Mexico” with a hopeful cover story about the new reformer.

But these days, Nieto is not popular at home, following the horrific case of the 43 missing college students who were apparently kidnapped by police and turned over to gangsters to be murdered for disagreeing with a local mayor.

There were other scandals last year, mostly concerning on the power of organized crime in Mexico and its relation to the government. Reform didn’t happen under Nieto because Mexico is too corrupt and violent to be easily fixed.

Right on cue, the Daily Mail reported that Mexican cartel recruits are now required to eat the hearts of murder victims in an effort to keep out infiltrators. So Aztec.

But when el Presidente comes to call in Washington, Obama treats Mexico like any other country, which it isn’t. Mexico is a backwater of violence, antipathy to education and misogyny, yet it is the largest source of immigrants to America. Lucky us.