The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorcrossed out this Wednesday of “barbarity” and “extermination” reports on new Texas anti-immigrant measures (USA., where the media indicates that local agents have been ordered to push immigrants into the Rio Grande and not give them water.
“The first thing (of pushing immigrants) I don’t think so, it would be outrageous, it’s extreme, it’s inhumane, it’s extermination, I don’t think so. The other thing is possible, that migrants are not given water, and that they are even persecuted”said the president in his daily press conference.
His statements come after The Houston Chronicle and CNN reported, based on obtained emails, that state police received orders to “push immigrants back into the water to return to Mexico”including infants and children.
The emails, in which a DPS police officer describes the acts as “inhuman”They also display the order not to give water to asylum seekers despite the extreme heat.
The Mexican ruler was incredulous at the reports of pushing the undocumented, but recalled that in Texas “At one time they came to hunt migrants”.
“Tremendous, because they fostered this hatred of the migrant, which is what they continue to do,” manifested.
The president reiterated his criticism of the razor wire fence and buoy barrier on the Rio Grande that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has placed in the Eagle Pass border area.
“It’s still propaganda, advertising, because it’s a very small strip, it’s to take a photo and get votes, or try to get votes, because I also think that doesn’t work for them anymore, the people of Texas don’t see that well, it may be that they thought otherwise before, but everything changes.”he pointed.
López Obrador has confronted Republicans such as Abbott and Florida Gov. and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis over their anti-immigrant measures in recent months.
Instead, he revealed that he recently met in the northern state of Sonora with the new governor of Arizona, Democrat Katie Hobbs, whom he called a “very good person”.
The Republicans have intensified their anti-immigrant policies after the expiration last May of Title 42, a measure by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) that allowed the immediate deportation of people on the grounds of the pandemic.
“Conservative politicians in the United States continue to use that anti-immigrant strategy because they think that’s how they’re going to get votes. We are going to continue denouncing all those anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican politicians.”warned López Obrador.
Source: EFE
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