Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, who was on a tour last week of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and Cuba, demanded greater involvement from Washington in joint solutions to the problem of massive irregular migration to the United States.
During his tour, the Mexican president also promoted his social programs to contain irregular migration in the Northern Triangle of Central America.
At the Mexico-U.S. border, thousands of undocumented Central American, Cuban and Haitian migrants are often detained in search of work in North America, overwhelmed by the violence and poverty that plague their countries.
The Mexican leader called for job creation programs. “The will of Latin Americans is not enough for this, the United States must also be clearly involved in solving a problem that also affects them and contribute to the financing of these programs,” he added.
Washington must also help “combat the conditions that force millions of people to abandon their place of residence,” he added.
In 2021, Mexican authorities found more than 300,000 irregular migrants; while in the last three weeks, the United States has detained some 7,800 undocumented immigrants in the border area daily, nearly five times the 2014-2019 average.
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