Claudia Salazar and Martha Martínez / Reforma Agency
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | 18:45
Mexico City.- The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Santiago Creel, asked the government to express its disagreement with the United States expelling 30,000 migrants a month from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua to Mexico.
That, Creel said, should be an issue that should be expressed at the trilateral meeting with the United States and Canada, which is taking place at the National Palace.
The PAN member affirmed that the efforts to consolidate the North American economic bloc should be applauded, of which Mexico is a determining country in its consolidation.
There must be, he added, efforts to resolve the differences, such as the change in rules on energy, a situation that the United States and Canada object to, and on the Mexican side the immigration issue.
“On the one hand, it shows, the issues of an immigration nature, that we cannot leave them aside or overlook, with the United States asking Mexico to receive 30,000 deportees of nationalities from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela, which will generate terrible chaos at the border,” he said.
Santiago Creel argued that this situation of serving 30,000 people in border states and municipalities generates pressure on resources and infrastructure.
“This should motivate us to seek and give support to the Mexican government, so that it is not allowed, or if they are going to authorize it, to come with the necessary resources so that municipal presidents and border governors can face this situation,” he declared at a press conference.
Creel added that care for these migrants is independent of the deportation of Mexicans by the United States.
The legislator said he hoped that there would be more substantial agreements at the trilateral meeting on how the three countries could jointly address the problem of violence, security, organized crime, drug trafficking and arms trafficking.
This Tuesday, he added, a meeting of members of the Board of Directors of the Permanent Commission of Congress was held with legislators from Canada who are part of the Foreign Relations Commission, who are part of the delegation that accompanied the Prime Minister of Canada , Justin Trudeau.
There was an exchange, he specified, on topics of interest in the relationship between both countries.
Canadian legislators, according to Creel, agreed that the issue of violence and organized crime should be seen as a problem that concerns all three nations.
“There is awareness of the enormous violence that occurs in Mexico, the product of the largest consumption mark (in the United States), and the transfer of weapons, and the lack of application of the rule of law in our country,” said the deputy of the BREAD.
“That this cannot be fought with the theory of ‘hugs and not bullets’, there was no direct criticism, but a mention of what happened in Sinaloa with the apprehension of Ovidio (Guzmán) and awareness of the legislators that it is a joint problem , with a trilateral approach, that this is not just from one country and not just from Mexico.”
