Biden: AMLO’s immigration plan, “consistent”

Mexico City. President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast last night that he and his administration are trying to determine whether he has the authority to act on his own and close the United States’ southern border with Mexico to migrants if necessary.

Likewise, he considered the most to his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose plan to attack the causes of the flow of people, such as unemployment in their countries of origin, is in line with his immigration proposal.

In a wide-ranging interview with Univision, Biden said that because bipartisan legislation that would have given him the authority to close the border was held up by Republicans in Congress, he was being encouraged to try to go it alone.

We are examining whether or not I have that powerhe stressed, although he admitted that There is no guarantee that it has that capacity without legislation. When there are more than 5 thousand people a day trying to cross the border, because you can’t manage it, slow it down. There is no guarantee that I would have all that power on my own without legislation. And some have suggested that you should just give it a try. And if the court stops me, let them stop me, but we’re trying to work on that right now.he explained.

Migration is a central issue in this year’s presidential campaign. Former President Donald Trump, Biden’s likely Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 election, has accused him of cheating on border issues.

We are in a situation where, for example, we don’t even have enough officers to interview people and discern whether they have a substantiated fear or concern to qualify and enter. We do not have enough elements on the border with our Border Patrol agents nor the necessary machinery to detect fentanyl and illegal drugs that enterhe explained.

Regarding the proposal of the Mexican president “to establish a plan to combat the fundamental causes of migration in the Western Hemisphere, and the call for the United States to invest 20 billion dollars to address the causes of migration, as well as to soften the sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba, among others, when his opponent (Donald Trump) said he would not give Mexico even 10 cents, he was asked how he would work with President López Obrador to reduce migration and also with his successors?

The US president responded: “before López Obrador even presented that plan, I started it years ago. Look, it’s not like people are sitting around a table, a hand-hewn table somewhere in Guatemala, saying, I have a great idea: ‘let’s sell everything we have, give it to a criminal gang. They will take us to the other side of the border. They will leave us on the other side with a language you don’t speak, where they don’t want me. Won’t that be fun?’ People don’t… leave because they have no alternatives. And so what we’re doing is… we did, and it worked for a while until they cut it, is providing the ability to create jobs in the countries where the population is leaving. People don’t want to leave where they are from. They are looking to ensure they have the opportunity to make a living, and would prefer to do so where they are.

So I think your idea is consistent with what I’ve been promoting. And we should be doing something like thisBiden said.

When asked if he has a good relationship with President López Obrador, he stated: Yes Yes. I find it direct. She has never cheated on me. She knows what she wants. She keeps her word. That’s the most I can ask for.

The full interview in