Monday, July 2, 2018

Mexican President-Elect López Obrador To Defy President Trump On Immigration

A group of recently deported immigrants stand near the double steel fence that separates San Diego and Tijuana at the border in Tijuana, December 10, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Luis Gómez Romero, The Conversation: Mexico’s next president likely to defy Trump on immigration

United States President Donald Trump has long blamed Mexico for the flow of Central Americans seeking to enter the United States’ southern border.

Migrants just cross Mexico like they’re “walking through Central Park,” Trump once claimed.

In truth, Mexico is aggressive in enforcing U.S. immigration policy. In 2014 President Enrique Peña Nieto implemented a robust deterrence effort, the Southern Border Program, to deter migration across Mexico’s border with Guatemala.

Between 2014 and 2015, Mexican deportations of Central Americans traveling to the U.S. – primarily Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans – more than doubled, from 78,733 in 2013 to 176,726 in 2015. During the same period, U.S. border agents detained half as many Central American migrants at the border.

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WNU editor: Every Mexican President  has defied U.S. rules and regulations on immigration, and I expect Mexican President-Elect López Obrador will act the same way. The difference now is that a U.S. President has made a commitment to stop it.

4 comments:

fred said...

You neglected to state why he is to "defy" the U.S. Here is why:

"Presidential front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador is an outspoken Trump critic who recently denounced separating migrant families as “arrogant, racist and inhuman.”
should he cooperate in separating families?

War News Updates Editor said...

No Fred. This is what he is focused on and he is now very opened about it.

The Expected Next President Of Mexico Is Calling For Mass Immigration To The U.S. http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-expected-next-president-of-mexico.html

Chase jones said...

why do all you leftys act like family separation is something new? what do you think happens to an American citizen who breaks the law. they dont take there kids to jail with them. we can all see threw your fake outrage

Young Communist said...

@Chase: And we can all see threw your fake legalism.
So put the children of a rich or middle class jailed person in a cage for animals like US did to poor Mexican childrens.