President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his government will continue to “contain” migrants seeking to reach Mexico’s northern border, a day after the National Guard clashed with members of a caravan that departed from Tapachula, Chiapas, as they tried to block their passage.
“We will continue to contain, but we must seek substantive solutions, structural, and also the United States has to give scholarships, and has to allow temporary work visas for Central America, it does not affect them at all, because the labor force is needed in the United States and Canada,” he said Sunday.
From Metapa, Chiapas, where he inaugurated a fly breeding and sterilization plant, López Obrador indicated that they will continue “insisting that this problem of cooperation for the development of southeast and Central America be taken away. With President Trump, progress was made, we were convincing him and that is why he accepted the signing of the new treaty between Mexico, Canada and the United States.”
Currently, with President Biden, he said that he has “a very good relationship. I’ve talked to him, to Vice President Kamala Harris about it and there are already talks.”
He also boasted of the support that his government has given, mainly Sembrando Vida.
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On Saturday, hundreds of migrants, mostly from Haiti, organized a new caravan from Tapachula. After a 42-kilometer walk, at least 300 of them reached Huixtla, where they spent the night.
During the journey they were harassed by a deployment of the National Guard, the National Institute of Migration and the Army, which, according to the Collective for Observation and Monitoring of Human Rights in southeastern Mexico, left an undetermined number of migrants detained and injured.
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