By EFE
The leader of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, described this Monday the immigration proposal of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as “absurd,” and said that Mexico should be “forced” to cooperate.
Johnson thus responded on social networks to López Obrador's interview with the CBS network in which he asked that the United States invest
20,000 million dollars annually
for the development of Latin America, lift the sanctions on Venezuela, end the embargo on Cuba and regularize Mexicans in their territory to stop immigration.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, speaks in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2024.Getty Images
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's proposal to increase border security is absurd,” reproached the Republican, who stated that the United States is suffering a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
According to Johnson, López Obrador is “coddling the cartels” and is “demanding that the United States finance mass migration” to US territory.
For this reason, he urged the president, Joe Biden, to put aside
“empty rhetoric”
and follow in the footsteps of former Republican president Donald Trump (2017-2021), who in his opinion did know how to use his “influence” on Mexico.
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“We should use all our influence to force the Mexican government to cooperate,” Johnson stressed.
The Mexican president, Manuel Andrés López Obrador, in Mexico City, on March 12, 2024.Getty Images
Migration crossings on the border between Mexico and the United States, which last year
reached a record number
, have become a central issue in the US presidential election campaign in November, in which Biden will seek re-election against former President Trump. , who has a marked speech against immigration.