The president of USA, Joe Bidenhe said this Tuesday in an interview with Univision who gets along well with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorand that he is someone who “keeps his word.”
«He seems like a direct person to me. He has never teased me. He knows what he wants. Keeps his word. That’s all I can ask for.”he indicated when asked if he has a good relationship with López Obrador.
The Biden Administration has maintained a cooperative relationship with López Obrador despite the Mexican president’s differences and criticism of some of the US policies on immigration or security. Investigations by American media outlets such as Propublica and The New York Times have suggested that there are links between the Mexican Government and drug trafficking, causing López Obrador’s energetic rejection.
The Mexican president is one of Joe Biden’s main allies in his attempt to reduce illegal immigration to the United States, a key issue in his electoral campaign to be re-elected in November 2024.
This Tuesday, for example, López Obrador reproached the United States and Canada for expressing an “ambiguous position” after the attack by the Government of Ecuador on the Mexican embassy in Quito last Friday, contravening the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, to arrest to the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas.
López Obrador, who has maintained a regular relationship with Biden during the American’s term, has also said that “he will not make the mistake” of supporting the Democrat in his re-election this November or his rival, the former Republican president. Donald Trump (2017-2021).
In his interview, Biden also referred to López Obrador’s proposal to contain irregular immigration that reaches the southern border of the United States and which, according to the Mexican, should include an investment of 20 billion dollars and the end of sanctions. to Venezuela y Cuba.
“Before Obrador came up with that plan, I had already started it years ago,” he said.
In the president’s opinion, irregular immigrants head to the United States because “they have no alternative.”
«What we have done and what was working until they cut it (due to lack of funds from Congress) is provide the ability to create jobs in the countries they leave. People don’t want to leave where they are from. “People want to know that they have an opportunity to make a living and they prefer to do it where they are.”Biden noted.
In 2021, Biden presented an immigration plan that included the regularization of people arriving in the country undocumented as minors, the so-called ‘dreamers’, and included proposals to reinforce border security and investment plans in Central America to address the problem. of immigration at its roots, something that did not achieve the support of Congress. EFE (I)
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