Mexico’s President has blamed Joe Biden for the surge in migrations as he slammed him for creating high expectations for migrants.
Taking a jab at the US President during a Tuesday press conference, Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused Biden of causing mass migration with his promises of better treatment of migrants.
“Expectations were created that with the government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so,” the president of Mexico said.
“People don’t go to the United States for fun, they go out of necessity.”
López Obrador’s comments follow shortly after his administration met with Biden’s envoys to discuss the influx of migrants and an increase in illegal crossings of the US-Mexico border.
This appears to be the second time this month the president of Mexico launched an attack on President Biden by blasting his way of handling what many refer to as a border crisis.
“They see [him] as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States,” López Obrador previously said.
“We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next.”
Meanwhile, Biden Administration continues blaming Trump and his policies for the current situation at the border.
As President Biden insisted during a Wednesday meeting with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of Homeland Security and Secretary Xavier Becerra of Health and Human Services, the former administration was to blame for the present problems.
“One of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in the country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,” he said.
“Unfortunately, the last administration eliminated that funding — did not engage in it, did not use it — even though there was over $700 million to help get this done. We’re reinstituting that program. And there are — as I said, there are many factors as to why people leave in the first place.”
He added: “So this new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to — and to stop what’s happening.”
The president also took the opportunity to announce changes in leadership as he revealed Vice President Kamala Harris would be handling the situation at the border and related talks with other countries from now on.
“I’ve asked her, the VP, today – because she’s most qualified person to do it – to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” Biden said.
“So it’s not her full responsibility and job, but she’s leading the effort because I think the best thing to do is to put someone who, when he or she speaks, they don’t have to wonder about is that where the President is.
“When she speaks, she speaks for me. Doesn’t have to check with me. She knows what she’s doing, and I hope we can move this along.”
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