Mexican president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

******** president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president called

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

“a friend” Friday and said he would write to the former U.S. president to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the ******* States.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

called Trump, president from 2017 to 2021 and again the *********** nominee for this fall’s presidential election, “a man of intelligence and vision,” despite Trump’s repeated calls to close the two countries’ border.

Mexicans were offended in 2015 when then-candidate Trump claimed that, in many cases, immigrants arriving in the U.S. illegally

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

And Mexico was shocked in 2019 when Trump as president

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

unless ******** authorities stopped migrants from crossing. López Obrador said the two countries’ economies were so intertwined that

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

López Obrador said that in a letter he planned to send next week, “I am going to prove to him that migrants don’t carry drugs to the ******* States,” adding that “closing the border won’t solve anything, and anyway, it can’t be done.”

“They wouldn’t last a month with the border closed,” he said, referring to U.S. automakers and manufacturers who depend on a steady, uninterrupted supply of parts and finished products for their plants on both sides of the border.

López Obrador also addressed a growing discomfort in the ******* States with the massive transfer of U.S. auto companies to lower-wage plants in Mexico.

López Obrador claimed that moving auto production back to the ******* States “would mean that on average, each automobile sold would cost U.S. citizens between $15,000 and $20,000 more.”

Despite the frequent frictions and Trump’s belligerent statements, the two leaders had an outwardly amicable relationship between 2018 and 2020, with López Obrador agreeing to use Mexico’s National Guard to make it ******* for third-country migrants to cross Mexico to the U.S. border. He has also done that during

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

___

Follow AP’s coverage of ****** America and the Caribbean at

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#******** #president #calls #Donald #Trump #friend #***** #warn #closing #border

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/