“The border between Mexico and the United States cannot be closed”

mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez ObradorThe former US president (2017-2021) responded on Tuesday that “the border of the United States with Mexico cannot be closed”. Donald Trump He promised to do so after winning the Iowa caucuses.

“It is part of the campaign in the United States, many things are expressed in campaigns to win votes, however, negotiations cannot be closed. Borders between Mexico

And USABorders cannot be closed, because economic and social integration is necessary,” López Obrador said at his daily conference.

The Mexican president reacted to the victory of Trump, who received more than 50% of the vote. Iowa caucusesWhere he warned in his victory speech that one of his first government actions would be to close the border with Mexico.

“We’re going to seal the border. We have an invasion, an invasion of millions and millions of people coming into our country,” he said.

Despite the growing rhetoric Anti-immigrant and the anti-Mexican Trump, Lopez Obrador He insisted that he had no problem with them, remembering that their only disagreement, in his opinion, was in mid-2019, when Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico. Undocumented immigration.

“There’s really no problem with President Trump, we just had a difference on this Border Management to unilaterally establish or attempt to establish tariffs, taxes on Mexican goods imported into the United States,” he noted.

The President assured that “A good neighbor is essential“Because “Imagine closing the borders one day, which means losses for American and Mexican companies.”

The pressure has increased after a historic surge of irregular migration in December, with an average of more than 10,000 arriving a day at the United States-Mexico border, as López Obrador has acknowledged.

But the Mexican president thanks him Presidential electionWhich will coincide this year in the United States and Mexico.

“It’s all about the campaign, there were elections yesterday, elections are being held within the parties, at least I’ve seen the results of the internal elections in the Republican Party and President Trump is ahead, he’s beating (Ron) DeSantis. , who also have an anti-immigrant discourse because that’s how they think they get votes,” he argued.