Mexico's president says he is willing to help with a crush of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States.

Mexico’s president said Friday that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States, but he wants the U.S. government to open talks with Cuba and send more development aid to migrants’ home countries.

The comments by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came a day after the U.S. announced that a delegation of top U.S. officials would visit Mexico for talks on how to enforce immigration rules at the two countries’ shared border.

Also Friday, U.S. authorities reopened two cross-border railroad crossings in Texas, while keeping operations limited or suspended at other border crossings. And figures released Friday show arrests for crossing the U.S. border from Mexico nudged 1.2% higher in November from October, one of the latest signs of what Troy Miller, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, described this week as “unprecedented” migration flows.

  • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
    393·
    11 months ago

    I really don’t understand why Cuba is still on some dumb blacklist when the Cold War has been over for decades. I mean… WTF?!?

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      11 months ago

      Cuban immigrants in Florida tend to hate the Cuban government. Opening up relations would mean losing all of their votes, and nobody wants to risk that.

      • randon31415@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        Oh, no, democrats wouldn’t have a chance of winning in Florida? That is almost as bad as hurting our chances of winning Mississippi!

        • KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk
          5·
          11 months ago

          Pretty sure the Cuban population tends to vote republican because of the press about democrats being socialist wannabes or whatever.

          Didn’t Obama loosen restrictions on Cuba and the Trump put it back to how it was before?

      • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
        1·
        11 months ago

        Except the endgame is to change the government for the better. Perhaps they are wedded to the idea of a permanent bad government in Cuba, which forms their personality.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      81·
      11 months ago

      It’s so fucking stupid man. Like, even assuming you hate communism, would the best way to beat communism not be to heavily trade with it and just McDonalds the communism away? Like if capitalism is superior it will just spread around and win.

      Makes no sense to me.