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.
My dad has been saying for decades how ridiculous it is we have neglected this entire hemisphere, causing damage and then complaining when the countries we’ve directly impacted have people who want a better life.
Imagine the position we’d be in if we moved all of our low cost manufacturing labor to central and South America instead of China. There’s no reason we can’t be helping our direct neighbors.
That’s a great, and very agreeable point, Waluigi’s Talking Buttplug!
Not neglecting, more like actively sabotaging. Since the 1800s the US has been actively interfering in the politics of every country from Mexico southward. Fomenting coups against popular governments and giving full support to brutal and genocidal dictators all to protect US business interests.
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It’s criminal that Cuba has been crushed with sanctions for decades all because the US doesn’t like their government. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot how people would react
It’s mostly because of Cubans in Florida. If Florida wasn’t a swing state, no one would give a shit.
You can’t even claim it’s because the U.S. doesn’t deal with communist governments, since the U.S. does not have remotely similar sanctions against China or Vietnam. People can travel to Vietnam or China whenever they want to. No special dispensations needed on the U.S. side.
Meanwhile, Canadians are catching rays at fancy Cuban resorts. I know. My uncle was one of them.
Yeah the US is just butt hurt that they were so humiliated by such a small nation and now they won’t let it go.
We were humiliated by Vietnam as well. We let that go. Cuba is different because a minority of Cubans who fled to the U.S. when Castro came to power wield a large amount of influence in Florida politics, and thus national politics.
That’s fair, it hurts when your slaves are taken away lol.
It’s crazy that a single state has that much international sway though.
Have to remember that some American states are more like countries when you compare physical size, population, gdp, resources, etc. The United States is a collection of nation-states in one union with federal oversight, kinda like a workers union.
Agreed. Thankfully, those people are dying out along with a lot of Florida’s aging population, so this will hopefully not last.
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There many businesses making large profits by keeping the embargo in place.
Seems pretty fair.
Not really, it’s past time we lifted sanctions.
Honestly? I’m pretty sure it’s the sugar lobby that is the reason for it. Lots of sugar industry types would have to compete again, and we can’t have that.
We can’t negotiate with Cuba for another 10 or 20 years, we have to wait for more old Cubans to die in Miami first.
Didn’t stop Obama from opening relations, it’s Trump that fucked things up
Not only fucked it up, it made almost impossible to revert the decision as it is now required that house And senate agree to do it, when in the past is was just a matter of a presidential signature.
I live in FL and the dissociation from Cuban expats towards the world, and the people who still live in the island and their reality are astounding. Some laugh and think of themselves as whites ; like the proud boy Tarrio.They’re only whites as long as there are darker people around, that’s what they should remember.
Talks with the Cuban regimen/dictatorship? Maybe ask Mexico’s president what he thinks of the thousands of Cubans that flee the island every year and the cruelty that the regimen show to their own citizens. Of course he will have no comments since they’re on the same team.
Internet trolls can downvote all you want, this is not reddit you don’t have the same leverage here.
