Forward of the presidential debate in the USA, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador known as on the candidates (Joe Biden and Donald Trump) to not manipulate the immigration challenge.
“We want to see that if the difficulty of migration is addressed, it’s dealt with objectively and in accordance with the reality.”
The trade between the present US president and his predecessor – each candidates for the presidency of that nation – will happen this afternoon, and would be the first debate within the context of the electoral course of.
On this context, and when requested in regards to the challenge through the morning press convention on Thursday, the Mexican president harassed that “at present there is no such thing as a major problem with migration, each events know that we have now been insisting on addressing the causes of migration.”
The Tabasco native mentioned he would really like all Mexicans, particularly these dwelling in the USA, to know the fact of the immigration scenario on the border, “in order that the immigration challenge isn’t used as an excuse, as a pretext, with the need guilty Mexico and to look good to the residents of the USA, with all due respect to each candidates.”
On this regard, he offered a graph displaying that on June 25, the USA Customs and Border Safety Workplace (CBP) recorded 3,479 irregular encounters on its southern border, a discount—based on these figures—of 72.16 p.c in comparison with the 12,498 that occurred on December 18 of final yr.
Nonetheless, the identical numbers present that of these 3,479 irregular encounters, 2,065 had been irregular entries into U.S. territory, equal to virtually 60 p.c, and the opposite 1,414 had been by way of the mechanism established by Biden to investigate asylum purposes.
“In December we had a disaster as a result of issues acquired worse in Central America and the Caribbean. Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, and naturally Haiti, as a result of these migrants are mainly from these international locations. We intervened, we talked with the governments of these international locations, we reached agreements, we’re supporting the event of communities that should to migrate out of necessity, and we achieved this (the discount between final December and June).”
López Obrador additionally insisted that Mexico has performed its half. “I simply need to remind you, with all due respect, that there’s extra unemployment in the USA than in Mexico. Now we have an unemployment price of two.7 p.c and so they have 3.9 p.c, which is why the variety of Mexicans who beforehand needed to go search a dwelling in the USA out of necessity are now not going there.
“And simply as we have now managed to cease migratory flows in Mexico by addressing the causes with progress, with employment, with well-being, this should be performed with the cooperation of the USA authorities in different international locations in Central America, within the Caribbean, in Latin America. People who have financial and social issues, political conflicts, should handle the causes, resolve the issues they’ve with the federal government of Venezuela; droop the inhumane, unjust blockade of Cuba, in order that, amongst different issues, along with the important factor that’s to respect the sovereignty of the folks, the migratory circulation of those that have to go away Cuba for the USA due to the suffocating scenario that exists because of the blockade might be tempered and diminished.”
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– 2024-07-03 22:09:06
