MEXICO CITY, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The US government does not want to build a new section of wall on its border with Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, expressing doubt that the planned construction will go ahead.
“It’s pure publicity,” Lopez Obrador said in a regular morning news conference after the Biden administration announced it would build additional sections of the border wall, continuing a signature policy of the Trump administration.
A high-ranking delegation of US officials met Thursday with their Mexican counterparts, among them US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“They don’t want to (build more sections of the wall), that’s what they told us,” Lopez Obrador said.
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the funds allocated for the construction were appropriated by Congress and that he could not, by law, divert the money.
A member of the Texas National Guard guards with the aim of preventing the crossing of migrants into the United States on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between Mexico and the United States.REUTERS Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that he doubts that plans to build a border wall will be implemented. via REUTERS US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the funds allocated for the construction were appropriated by Congress and that he could not, by law, redirect the money. Leigh Vogel – Kolam via CNP / MEGA
Biden, upon taking office in 2021, promised that “no more American taxpayer dollars will be diverted to building a border wall.”
The Mexican president added that in a meeting the day before, the Mexican delegation stated that Mexico “does not believe (the construction of an additional border wall) as the answer to the migration problem.”
“We always talk about treating the root cause,” Lopez Obrador said.
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