Zacatecas /
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would seek to reach an agreement on migration with President Joe Biden, so that Mexicans could work legally in the United States, ensuring that the labor of compatriots it is very important for the commercial economic development of North America.
“I don’t want to hurt susceptibilities, but the spark for North American development is Mexico, for several reasons and one of those is the quality of its workforce, its Mexican workers, its strength, its youth.” , he said.
During the evaluation of the Guarantee Prices program in Zacatecas, the president recalled that next Monday he will have a virtual meeting with Biden, in which he will discuss the importance of Mexicans in the United States.
He will seek to get the U.S. president to recognize the importance of the Mexican workforce to grow and produce, which in turn will influence the decisions that are made about migration. “We are better off ordering the migratory flow, legalizing it, protecting human rights,” he said.
“According to my accounts, the U.S. economy will need between 600,000 and 800,000 Mexican workers a year, which it doesn’t have, despite robotization and technological advances. It’s better that we come to a good deal.
“If you don’t have Mexican labor how is the increase in production in the United States guaranteed? That is why we are proposing an agreement“Of course the most important thing, the fundamental thing, is that we develop,” he said.
López Obrador compared the program of Mexican laborers that was promoted during the 1940s, because Mexican workers would work in the U.S. field while Americans went to war during World War II.
However, the Chief Executive has stressed that his government will continue to work to address the root causes of migration and prevent citizens from having to leave their homes, family and culture, “so that Mexicans can work and be happy where they were born,” he pointed out.
“But if there is who, not out of necessity, but they want to go look for other parties, in the United States, who can do it, but by legal means“Through an agreement with the US government, that’s one of the things we want to raise at this Monday’s meeting,” he warned.
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