Posted on 01/24/2020 10:05:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is facing a barrage of criticism at home that he is doing U.S. President Donald Trump’s bidding after erecting a “wall” of security forces near the Guatemala border to keep out Central Americans.
Mexico has bowed to demands from Trump, under the threat of punitive tariffs, to contain mass movements of migrants, most of them from Central America, who have been crossing through Mexico on their way to the U.S. border.
Lopez Obrador was questioned at his daily morning news conference for a second day in a row about how the migrants are being treated by the National Guard military police and the National Migration Institute (INM).
Lopez Obrador defended how the National Guard and INM have acted and said the caravan of Central American migrants was not spontaneous, signaling that Honduran activists were driving the movement for political ends.
Television images have shown the National Guard corralling entire families and then loading them onto buses for detention and then deportation. Migrants crossing into Mexico this week faced tear gas from security forces, in a firmer response than seen in previous mass crossings.
“We sold our soul and have turned into the wall,” Carlos Heredia, a Mexican economist and academic, said in a Friday newspaper column in El Financiero.
Trump has made immigration a keystone issue in his bid for re-election in November and is pushing for the construction of a wall along the U.S-Mexico border.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
And thus the most mocked statement involving illegal immigration becomes true. Mexico is paying for the wall.
Poland is the wall! - J Stalin
Anti-American article.
I’m under the impression that Mexico has laws on their books about people illegally entering their country. If they’re enforcing their laws, that’s a good thing.
Yet Reuters tries to twist it into a bad thing and blame President Trump.
Yes!
Promises made, promises kept.
That’s our president. A man of his word in all things.
“We sold our soul and have turned into the wall,” Carlos Heredia, a Mexican economist and academic, said in a Friday newspaper column in El Financiero.
Sounds like a really good school. /s
Well YEAH it’s from rooters. That’s a given before reading the title.
“We sold our soul and have turned into the wall,” Carlos Heredia, a Mexican economist and ACADEMIC
Hey their academics are morons too! :)
We should pay for the Wall, but we should pay Mexican labor rates. Have them build the Wall on their side of the border, and we’ll pay the $15 an hour that the far left demands. That’s a good by Mexican standards, and we need another 1,500 miles of Wall. That’s whole lot of jobs!
mexicans are just doing the job american politicians refuse to do...
Check!
I’m under the impression that Mexico has laws on their books about people illegally entering their country.
Even better, if you do have permission to live and/or work there, try getting involved in their politics and see what happens!
>he is doing U.S. President Donald Trump’s bidding
By protecting his border??
Mexico used to pass out 15 day transit visas to people crossing their southern border. Then they looked the other way as do-gooders provided trucks and busses as well as fod and shelter along the way north. The unwritten deal was that these people would get into the USA within the 15 days. They used to do so. For some reason, Mexico is not pasing out these transit visas now.
Brilliant meme. The propaganda today is very sophisticated and very widespread, preying on ignorance.
Reuters, GO BACK TO THE UK!!!!!!!!!!!
Mexico has some of the most restrictive immigration laws in the world and they scream and holler about ours. This is one of the reasons why I hate Mexico.
A Reuters news story is as left leaning as the AP and the Wash Post.
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