At his morning press conference at the National Palace, the president responded to a question about the migration issue and the foreigners who are in that situation in Mexico with the dangers it entails, such as the recent kidnapping of 32 migrants, most of whom were Venezuelans.
López Obrador explained that Mexico’s approach to the United States is the integration of the entire continent. If it has already proven to be successful in North America, why not the whole of the Americas, and that is what we are proposing Washington and Canada, since this is to regularize the migration situation.
Furthermore, it has to be done with do it with a much realism, so as not to allow the exploitation of the workers who are regularized, starting with those who have been working in the United States for more than 10 years and are not recognized, he added.
The other measures are the allocation of a budget of 20 billion dollars for Latin American and Caribbean countries, that the US Congress present a welfare and structural development plan, but Washington does not do it, on the contrary, it questions it.
Another measure is the regularization of at least 10 million compatriots with more than 10 years of honest work in the United States.
López Obrador also called to lift the US economic and commercial blockade against Cuba and start bilateral dialogue, remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list, abandon those fears and admit what danger Cuba could pose to the United States or any other country.
In this regard, he wondered, how can a people be sacrificed for political and ideological interests? Can there not be a dialogue of understanding, a relationship of respect?
In addition, removing all sanctions against Venezuela. How many Venezuelans were among the 32 kidnapped? In order fulfill those four points, he said, we have to go to the bottom of the problem. Ah, that some party will not like it! Yes, but the people, which is what is important, will like it because they are the citizens’ reserves and they know that this is facing the problem as such, and not managing the conflict as it is being done now.
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