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Biden says he gets along well with AMLO and that he is a man who “keeps his word”

The president of U.S, Joe Bidenassured this Tuesday in an interview with Univision that he gets along well with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorand that he is someone who “keep your word”.

He seems like a straightforward person to me. He never provoked me. He knows what he wants. He keeps his word. That’s all I can ask“, he indicated when asked if he has a good relationship with López Obrador.

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The Biden Administration has maintained a correct and cooperative relationship with López Obrador, despite the Mexican president’s differences and criticisms of some of the US policies on immigration or security.

This Tuesday, for example, López Obrador rebuked U.S It is Canada expressing a “ambiguous stance”after the attack by the Government of Ecuador The Mexican embassy in Quito last Friday, contrary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, to arrest the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas.

AMLOthat has maintained a regular and correct relationship with Joe Biden During the American’s term, he also said that “won’t make the mistake”to support the Democrat in his re-election in November or his rival, the former Republican president donald trump (2017-2021).

In his interview, Biden also referred to López Obrador’s proposal to contain irregular immigration reaching the southern border of the United States and which, according to the Mexican, should include an investment of 20 billion dollars and the end of sanctions. Venezuela It is Cuba.

Before Obrador came up with this plan, I had already started it years ago”, he guaranteed.

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In the president’s opinion, irregular immigrants go to the United States because “they have no alternative”.

What we did and what worked until they cut it (due to lack of funding from Congress) was to provide the ability to create jobs in the countries they leave. People don’t want to leave where they came from. People want to know they have the opportunity to make a living and they prefer to do it where they are.,” Biden noted.

In 2021, Biden presented an immigration plan that included the regularization of people who arrived in the country undocumented as minors, the so-called ‘dreamers‘ (dreamers), and included proposals to strengthen border security and investment plans in Central America to address the root cause of the immigration problem, something that has not received support from Congress.

Source: Elcomercio

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