AMLO insists on asking the US for a migration plan without “walls” or “militarization”

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insisted this Sunday, during his last official Government Report, that the United States must endorse a migration plan, without “walls” or “militarization” of bordersincluding investments in Latin America.

The president stated in the Zócalo of Mexico City that his government has exported social programs such as Sembrando Vida, to support farmers, and Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro, for professional internships, to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Belize and Cuba, to stop migration.

“(The programs are) to lead by example, while they (in the United States) They decide and resolve it, because this is the best way to confront the migration phenomenon; it is not with a wall or militarizing the borders that the migration phenomenon will be resolved,” he declared.

López Obrador delivered his last official Government Report this Sundayin which he took stock of his six-year term (2018-2024) before handing over the presidential sash on October 1 to his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, from his same party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

The Mexican leader spoke about migration as anti-immigrant sentiments grow in the United States ahead of the US elections in November.

While former president (2017-2021) and Republican candidate, Donald Trump, warns of mass deportations and increases his rhetoric against Mexicans, Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, promised to sign a reform negotiated in February that would allow closing the border and expelling more migrants to Mexico.

Although daily arrests at the US border have fallen by more than 70% since December, Irregular migration through Mexico rose 193% year-on-year in the first half of the year to exceed 712,000, according to the Government’s Migration Policy Unit.

In this context, López Obrador argued that Washington must understand that “those who abandon their families and communities do not do so out of choice, they do so out of necessity.”

“We have led by example. We have argued for several years that the best way to confront the migration phenomenon is to address the causes, supporting countries with poor populations in Central America and the Caribbean,” he said.

With information from EFE.

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