The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoryoudismissed this Wednesday as “barbaric” and “extermination” the reports on new anti-immigrant measures in Texas (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,” the president said in his daily press conference.
His remarks come after The Houston Chronicle and CNN reported, based on obtained emails, that the state Police received orders to “push the immigrants back into the water so they could return to Mexico”including infants and children.
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The emails, in which a Department of Public Safety (DPS) police officer describes the acts as “inhumane,” tThey 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,” he said.
The president reiterated his criticism of the razor wire fences and the buoy barrier in the Rio Grande that the governor of Texas has placedRepublican Greg Abbott, in the Eagle Pass border area.
It does not stop being propaganda, advertising, because it is a very small strip, it is to take the photo and to get votes, or to try to get votes, because I also believe that this no longer works for them, the people of Texas do not see that well, it may be that before they thought otherwise, but everything changes, “he said.
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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 this anti-immigrant strategy because they think that this is how they will get votes. We are going to continue denouncing all those anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican politicians,” López Obrador warned.
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