On 1/11/2023, Joe Biden delivered remarks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked President Joe Biden for not building “one meter” of border wall at a joint press conference in Mexico City. “You, president Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter of wall,” López Obrador said. “And that we thank you for that, sir.”
He added, “Although some might not like it, although the conservatives don’t like it, in a very special manner.” AMLO also praised the fact that illegal immigrants already in the US “are not suffering raids as unfortunately used to happen in the past” and attacked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, for his “completely inhuman” initiative to bus migrants released by US border officials to New York City and Washington, DC, in protest of Biden’s policies. He said, “President Biden — I have requested on insisting — and I know that this is not a simple issue or matter, but it’s a fair and very just matter. And that’s why I’m proposing it. That’s why I’m mentioning this. And also because I truly — I fully trust President Biden.”
“I’ve asked President Biden to insist before the U.S. Congress to regularize the migration situations of millions of Mexicans who have been in the States working, living in the United States, and contributing to the development of that great nation, which is the United States of America. I have reasserted, reaffirmed that President Biden is a man with convictions who maintains principles, ideals to guarantee, to ensure as many others — men, women in the United States and throughout the world — that the Statue of Liberty never, never, ever should become a symbol — a void, an empty symbol.”
Biden did not make border security part of his 2020 campaign. In fact, the then-candidate was adamant he was against the physical barriers on the country’s border with Mexico. Biden presided over a record-smashing nearly 2.4 million border-crossing arrests in fiscal 2022, which ended Sept. 30. The figures from October and November show illegal border-crossings are up 40% and 34%, respectively, over the same months in 2021.
Biden made his first visit to the US-Mexico border as president on Sunday but drew criticism because he didn’t interact with migrants after El Paso officials cleaned up.
Biden said, “And so, what we found out — and not just in my visit to El Paso, but before that — we found out is that our Republican friends and some — a few Democrats — they were very critical of what’s going on at the border but yet refuse even look at the detail document I submitted for the Congress to consider to reform the process completely.”
“And so we’re trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here, but not have them go through that godawful process. And we’re going to continue our efforts to address the root causes of migration to help people stay in their home countries. I’ve asked the Congress for $4 billion to provide for that. “
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Biden “Not Even One Meter Of Wall”, GOPs “Critical” Of Border, Trying To Make It Easier, another $4B