WASHINGTON — “I wouldn’t give 10 cents” to Mexico for the immigration crisis, said former President Donald Trump, a fact that he describes as an “invasion” of migrants to the United States.
In February the Mexican government of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador proposed a decalogue to address the issue migratorywhich includes the grant of 20 billion dollars annually to support the poor countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, where most of the migrants come from, funds that would come from American taxpayers.
Trump, a probable Republican rival of Democratic President Joe Biden, a candidate for re-election in the November elections, considers it “a lack of respect” and is not willing to tolerate it – he says – if he is elected at the polls.
“He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk, $10 billion to talk, that doesn’t make sense and that wouldn’t happen with me,” Trump told Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade.
“Disrespect”
It is “simply a lack of respect towards the president. They would never say that to me. They would never say, before speaking, I want 10 billion dollars a year (…) they would never ask me for it,” he stated. “He wouldn’t give him 10 cents,” the Republican concluded.
Trump intensifies, if possible, the anti-immigrant qualifiers as the campaign progresses despite the fact that, barring unforeseen events, he is assured of the duel against Biden in November.
“They are killing our country, they are killing our people,” they “poison” it, they are “criminals,” psychopaths… The list is long and getting longer every week, Trump says in relation to the increase in fentanyl trafficking, which in the last year left more than 100,000 dead in the United States.
The majority of migrants are Latin Americans fleeing poverty, violence or corruption. Trump threatens to deport them “massively” if he wins the election.
More than 9 million migrants have entered the United States irregularly since Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, an unprecedented number that is wreaking havoc in large cities in the country and represent a public burden, one of them New York .
“We are not a colony”
In an interview with the CBS program 60 Minutes, López Obrador boasted of having a “very good relationship with the United States government (of Biden), but not one of subordination.”
“We are an independent, free, sovereign country, we are not a colony, we are not a protectorate of any foreign country,” he stated, returning to an idea that he repeats on every trip to the United States.
“President Biden is respectful of our sovereignty as President Trump was,” López Obrador said.
Good harmony does not prevent discrepancies.
Millions of dollars
López Obrador has told the White House that Washington should invest billions each year to alleviate poverty in Latin America, ease sanctions on the leftist dictatorships of Venezuela and Cuba and grant legal status to millions of Mexicans living in the United States. .
In any case, they will not have to face each other to negotiate with Biden or Trump given that Mexico holds general elections at the beginning of June and López Obrador will leave office at the end of the year.
Source: With information from AFP
