Mexico City.- AMLO recognized the speech of US President Joe Biden where he addressed issues related to Mexico such as migration and arms trafficking that takes place between both nations.
“I thought President Biden’s message was appropriate, correct, timely, especially on the issue of gun control. That is an issue that matters a lot to us and also the new approach that has to be given to immigration policy, “said Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his daily conference.
AMLO referred to the first State of the Union speech he offered this Tuesday Bidenwho called for removing the legal protection for gun manufacturers that prevents them from being sued.
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Last August, the Government of Mexico sued 11 arms manufacturing companies in the United States for alleged negligence that facilitates trafficking and violence in the country.
López Obrador also stressed that Biden reaffirmed his “commitment to approve immigration reform to regularize” Mexicans and other migrants who are in the United States for “humanitarian and economic reasons.”
The Mexican president stated that his government is “completely in agreement with that position,” and even urged “that it be promoted soon” in Washington to find out the direction of the vote by Democrats and Republicans.
“And we, as Mexicans, can know who helps, supports our countrymen and who is anti-Mexican, who is in favor of xenophobia, racism, discrimination,” he said.
Despite the words of support, Lopez Obrador later he reproached the “anachronistic, offensive policy and contrary to international law” of the United States for financing civil organizations in other countries.
The president questioned again that Washington, according to him, gives resources to the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), which in January revealed an alleged conflict of interest of his son José Ramón, who lived in Houston, Texas, in the house of a contractor for Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
“We maintain our protest because the United States government is in an interventionist manner allocating money to a supposed civil association that is actually a conservative political organization whose sole purpose is to attack us,” he stressed.
In this context, López Obrador asked the United States for a new policy towards America to take advantage of the migratory and economic force.
After his criticism, he clarified that “President Biden is very aware of that” because he has recognized that Mexico “is not the backyard of the United States.”
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“We are in a completely new stage and the relationship with the ambassador (of the United States) Ken Salazar is very good and it will continue like this,” he said.
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