We’re wanting on the immigration subject: AMLO

Mexico Metropolis.- With out giving particulars, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned a part of his journey to Matamoros might be to research the difficulty of migrants on the border.

Arriving on the customs amenities on the Ignacio Zaragoza border bridge generally known as ‘Los Tomates’ in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the President answered two questions from reporters.

– President, what’s your opinion on the difficulty of immigration?, he was requested.

– “That’s why I come, we got here to speak about it. Now, we come to see it,” he replied.

– It’s mentioned that there are greater than seven thousand immigrants?, he insisted.

“Everybody must be cautious.

Title 42, which allowed the US to deport immigrants for well being causes, ended yesterday, and as a replacement, Title 8 now applies, which offers with harder measures in opposition to those that cross the border illegally.

The change in immigration coverage has created confusion amongst immigrants from numerous nationalities in search of asylum within the nation and people who have gathered on the Mexican aspect.

As well as, Mexico has agreed to obtain a thousand rejected migrants per day, creating strain on numerous border cities.

Guarded by the army and marines, who had stationed a surveillance machine close to the customs complicated since early morning, the person from Tabasco arrived round 4:00 p.m. and greeted the gang awaiting his arrival earlier than getting into.

“He greeted everybody who was there, and there have been individuals who gave him requests, they usually all obtained them nicely,” mentioned Jasmine Morales, a member of the Unbiased Nationwide Union of Industries and Service Staff (SNITIS).

Among the many calls for obtained by the president are a team of workers from Componentes Industrials, an organization that manufactures ballasts for lighting, which has been closed since March and has not paid its staff.

“We’ve got already been on strike for greater than a month and since March 22, we got here to work and posted a bit of paper the place we mentioned it was open till additional discover, it was going to be paid. The day and that was it.

“We’re asking to your assist as a result of we don’t have the main target or state or municipal assist, officers have come from Victoria, however every part is in negotiation,” Alicia Garza mentioned.

López Obrador will oversee work to modernize border customs this weekend, and tomorrow he might be in Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, the place new places of work for Mexico’s Nationwide Customs Company (ANAM) are being constructed.