Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday highlighted the “respect” that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris showed “toward the people of Mexico” in her call the day before.
“Yesterday I spoke with the Vice President of the United States, Mrs. Kamala, and we addressed the issue of migration and there is a very respectful attitude towards the people of Mexico and I would say that also towards migrants,” said López Obrador in his morning press conference.
The president’s statements come a day after his call with Harris, who has been in charge of migration from Central America and Mexico since March, in which they talked about the migration crisis plaguing the region, the trafficking of people and respect for human rights.
The president has stated that there is a willingness of Mexico “to add wills in the fight against human trafficking and protection of human rights, especially of girls and boys.”
“We are looking for an orderly, safe migration. One of our concerns that we have been conveying is that we must protect migrants in the south of our country,” López Obrador clarified on Thursday.
The region has been experiencing a growing migratory flow to the United States since Democrat Joe Biden arrived at the White House in late January after a change in rhetoric and a promise to help thousands of sunshine. asylum bidders stranded on the Mexican border.
According to official data, the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained 100,441 migrants in February and 78,442 in January, while more than 170,000 arrests are expected in March.
As López Obrador acknowledged, in particular he has alerted the number of unaccompanied minors.
The left-wing leader insisted on the need to “address the causes” of migration, urging Washington to approve $ 4 billion for development cooperation in southern Mexico and the North Central American Triangle. .
“We need to support Central America, they are aware, I mean the United States Government, the vice president said yesterday, they have an initiative for the United States Congress to authorize $ 4 billion in support for El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala “he said.
After highlighting a 20% annual increase in remittances received from the United States, López Obrador also highlighted Mexico’s interest in immigration reform that legalizes the undocumented.
“These issues are always addressed, there is a commitment on the part of the U.S. Government, from President Biden to have a migration policy with a social dimension, with a human dimension, I have maintained here that we congratulate this initiative,” he commented.