Posted on 02/09/2017 2:37:21 PM PST by BradtotheBone
Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican leftist 2018 presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans to visit the United States on Sunday to talk with migrants and Americans about US President Donald Trump's "poisonous" rhetoric.
Lopez Obrador, who is leading in opinion polls for next year's elections, told the daily El Universal in an interview published on Thursday that Trump has shown a lack of respect for Mexico.
"This campaign -- because it is very poisonous -- of xenophobia, of causing hate, must be confronted," said the two-time presidential election runner-up.
"We, Mexicans, are being persecuted. It's all a political strategy, so I will go to the United States precisely because of this," said Lopez Obrador, who is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.
"I will talk to business owners and migrants of the world, but I am also very interested in speaking with Americans."
Trump's vow to make Mexico pay for a border wall has angered Mexicans and sparked patriotic pride in America's southern neighbor.
Lopez Obrador criticized President Enrique Pena Nieto, who defeated him in the 2012 election, for inviting Trump to Mexico when the Republican billionaire was still on the White House campaign trail in August.
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What other country in the world could some foreigner go to, and demand that that sovereign nation break its own laws to allow citizens from the foreign country to not only be allowed in, but eligible for every gimmee they can get their hands on?
I wish President Trump would turn this around on him and ask him is he saying that his own nation is so crappy, that in desperation he demands that his fellow Mexicans be allowed to come into our country?
Yes, President Trump should tell him that we will just follow Mexico’s lead and base our immigration laws on their own, which are much more strict, and strictly enforced.
How is this chimp even allowed on US soil? We don’t have enough foreign seditionists here already, so we invite more in?
Ese Manuel. Tu Madre cholo.
Since when did colonizing parasites have more rights than Americans in America?
This is beyond absurd and retarded.
Lol...I hope President Trump sends the “official welcome wagon”.
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