After the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, promised to resume construction of the border wall, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo commented that “we must build bridges and not walls.”
In the morning conference at the National Palace, the president insisted that the best way to Addressing migration is with investment: “The most humane solution to migration is attention to the causes,” he expressed.
Likewise, the president recalled that former President López Obrador, at the time, He had a call with the Republicanand the Mexican president said: “you can put up fences, but he showed him a photograph of a tunnel through which drugs and migrants passed.”
Meanwhile, Sheinbaum Pardo reported that his administration will allocate resources to continue supporting the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, nations with which it carries out the “Sowing Life” and “Youth Building the Future” program.
Regarding the work they are doing for Mexican migrants, Sheinbaum indicated that this holiday season “they are welcome,” and that Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente is working to strengthen the consulates.
“This week the chancellor is going again to several cities in the United States to be able to speak with the consuls. He is even going to the detention centers to be able to see the conditions in which Mexican migrants who have been detained are, whether for a … are for immigration issues, but in some cases it is because they committed either an infraction or a crime in the United States, which are different treatments.”
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