Mexican head of state Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that no United States president has shown as deep of a commitment to migrants as Joe Biden.
He also vowed to call out US legislators who oppose a bill supported by the Democratic leader to provide a path to American citizenship for these people.
“No president has shown a deeper commitment to migrants than Biden. He is committed to regularizing the situation of 11 million migrants,” the Mexican leader, popularly known as AMLO, said in his daily press conference, adding that his administration is supportive of those plans.
AMLO made his remarks before his trip on Thursday to Washington, where he will participate in the North American Leaders’ Summit along with Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I’m doing this here, because I can’t (touch the subject) so openly in the United States out of respect for that country’s sovereignty,” the Mexican president said.
During a trip to New York last week, AMLO said he would ask Biden for assurances that Mexican migrants in the US will not be mistreated and for a commitment to regularize the status of Mexicans who live and work honestly in that country.
The president said the nearly 38 million Mexicans who live in the US – an estimated 5 million of whom are undocumented – “deserve justice.”
He therefore expressed the Mexican government’s support for a plan – long-sought by Democrats – to regularize the status of the nearly 11 million undocumented migrants estimated to live in the US.
Many Republicans, however, oppose those plans and see the opposing party’s immigration proposals as merely a strategy to accelerate changes to the country’s demographic makeup and create more Democratic voters.
“If President Biden presents an initiative to regularize the 11 million (undocumented) migrants, we’re going to be attentive, aware, seeing what happens, taking note of the stance by lawmakers of one party or another,” AMLO said.
He added that he also will publicly call out US lawmakers who oppose regularizing immigrants’ status.
“If legislators from a party block this initiative, we’re going to call attention to it. Here (in Mexico) we’re going to make it known that a party, its legislators, didn’t help with something that’s just, humanitarian,” the president said.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard added at the daily press briefing that during the Washington summit Lopez Obrador will insist upon Mexico’s proposal that all vaccines approved by the World Health Organization be universally recognized.
During the G20 summit in late October in Rome, Ebrard said universal recognition of vaccines will increase the effectiveness of immunization campaigns, contribute to an equitable and non-discriminatory resumption of international travel and accelerate economic recovery by revitalizing key economic sectors such as tourism.
AMLO also will discuss the need for joint action to ensure that North America supplies a sufficient amount of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin American nations, the foreign affairs secretary said. EFE
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YOU DON’T SAY !!!!!
He shows a greater commitment to migrants than he does the American people. He is willing to ruin his own country in order to maintain his commitment to illegal aliens.
Let’s Go Brandon
This is what he meant to say..
NO AMERICAN PRESIDENT Has put ILLEGAL INVADERS AHEAD OF AMERICAN citizens, MORE than biden has.
slo joe the demented is doing EXACTLY what his handlers want. Ruin America while you have the chance. In 12 months, the window closes, so do as much damage as you can, as fast as you can. Straight out of the mouth of saul alinski.
The treachery of the traitorous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
The current socialist Democrat Party’s strategy to “fundamentally transform” America into Socialism:
• Hurling accusations of racism, magnified by compliant media, whenever someone questions any liberal policy or supports common-sense measures like voter ID.
• Using the COVID-19 pandemic to destroy small businesses, turn once-independent citizens into obedient automatons, and to speed up centralized power in large companies, communications and government. This includes villainizing the “unvaxed.”
• Deploying the LGBTQ agenda to isolate and criminalize Christians and observant Jews by turning civil rights law into a battering ram against traditional values.
• Enormously expanding the welfare state to increase dependency.
• Flooding the country with illegal aliens who will become a vast, new dependent population groomed to vote Democrat.
AND can ANYONE ever, see our nation getting back to normal, EVEN IF WE some how win both the house and senate back, AND The white house??
I honestly can’t.. THERE IS JUST TOO DAMN MUCH DAMAGE done to it already.. AND we still have 3 more years to go!
No greater love hath a man, than he lay down the law for his Country. No greater hate hath a man than one that breaks, ignores or refuses to enforce the Laws of his country, who feels he knows better which laws to enforce, just like He know better how to spend your own hard earned money. Just who votes for these clowns other than freaks, geeks, and sideshow pinheads, or people who enjoy self-flagillating themselves in any form they can? Biden’s only great committment is to himself and his Biden crime family and would abandon the migrants or cage them all up in a heartbeat if it suits his purpose and benefit.
These people are NOT migrants, they are illegal aliens ! We have been sold out by BOTH political parties on the immigration issue both legal and illegal for well over 50 years ! The US has only had 2 Presidents who even tried to stop the tsunami of illegals pouring in, Trump and Ike tried, in the end both failed. Our country was not sold to the highest bidden, it was given away piece by piece to illegal aliens by our own government. Far to many of our elected officials were more than willing o sell their soul and their country for money, power and/or votes.
IMO we have passed the point of no return. The Barbarians are not only at the gate, they are here and they are not leaving.
ILLEGAL invaders. NONE OF THEM imo are merely migrants.
And you are raising by 14% my medicare insurance for part B. Am I missing something here?