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Without mentioning his name, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked Greg Abbott to “lower a hairline” , this after the US governor of Texas analyzes declaring as an “invasion” the arrival of more migrants to the United States, according to a report by ‘The New York Times’.
“I am now listening to some politicians from the United States. Since there are elections, they are already making accusations and there is one who talks about declaring that we are invading them, that it is an invasion. I would tell him to lower a hairline“, he pointed out.
The president Mexican invited the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to listen to the corrido ´Somos Más Americanos´, by the Mexican group ´Los Tigres del Norte´, that in their lyrics point out that the ‘gringos’ were the ones who painted “the line” on the border and invaded Mexican territory by taking away several states, in addition to the fact that Mexicans are also Americans.
“It is good that he is campaigning, but how can he talk about an invasion. If we go to those then I invite you to listen to the corrido of the Northern Tigers ´We are More Americans´, and after I hear it, we’ll talk”, he suggested.
It was the past weekend that in a report by ‘The New York Times’ it is pointed out that Greg Abbott, analyzes declaring as an “invasion” of the United States the growing arrival of migrants to the southern border with Mexico, a situation that would allow it to assume war powers and expand its faculties.
The behavior of the governor of Texas in recent weeks has caused annoyance to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
One of those “annoying” episodes was when the Republican hindered the entry of cargo trucks into US territory by arguing that I don’t know They were carrying out the correct inspections and that this caused the arrival of more undocumented migrants in Texas.
Given these facts, Andrés Manuel López Obrador described the behavior of Texas as “vile”, while the Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, described them as “extortion”, because Greg Abbott asked the Mexican governors of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Chihuahua to individually sign agreements to end restrictions on cargo trucks.
“Let me put this in quotes, is the extortion scheme, rather an extortion: I close the border and you have to sign what I say , that is not an agreement, an agreement is that you and I agree on something, “said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard in an interview for the Mexican media Milenio TV.
“I don’t judge, I think the governors do what they can, they didn’t have another alternative, but we are not going to be willing for a governor to extort money from Mexico, I will never allow that”, he specified in the interview from the state of Nuevo León.
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