By Pedro Villa y Caña & Eduardo Dina

López Obrador reproached that the United States has only focused on containment, walls, threats of a heavy hand, and border militarization.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured this Monday that, in five months, there has been no overflow of migrant flow and the number of deported migrants has not increased.

In his morning conference this Monday, June 10, at the National Palace, López Obrador acknowledged that his government has had more difficulty addressing the migration issue with countries with which the United States does not want to seek solutions or agreements – Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Guatemala – due to political pressures, especially because of the electoral process in the United States.

“It’s a permanent issue related to migration. There is communication with the U.S. government, they are making decisions, like this last one related to asylum, but there has been no overflow of migrant flow in the last five months.

“We had a delicate situation in December last year, but let’s say, that without applying a policy like the one we have been proposing for years to address the causes of migration, there have been no major migrant flows. And where we have more difficulty is with countries with which the United States does not want to seek solutions, agreements because there are political pressures, especially now that there will be elections, I mean the case of Cuba, Venezuela, of course Haiti, Nicaragua, and also Guatemala lately,” he said.

President López Obrador reproached that in the migration issue, the United States has only focused on containment, walls, threats of a heavy hand, border militarization, and stricter laws.

“But they don’t want to, it gets complicated for them to address the causes,” he said.

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