Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned that 10,000 immigrants are soon to reach the southern border each day.
He also told the United States to “remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries,” saying there should be an “integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Ecuadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate.”
President Obrador condemned the billions of funds sent to Ukraine and called for the U.S. to fund economic development in Latin America.
“They [U.S.] don’t do anything,” he said. “It’s more, a lot more, what they authorize for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Illegal immigrant encounters for fiscal year 2023 are expected to meet at least 2.37 million, the number of encounters for fiscal year 2022.
In El Paso, Texas, more than 2,000 individuals seek asylum each day.
“The city of El Paso only has so many resources, and we have come to … a breaking point right now,” said El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, describing the crisis.
Reporting from The Epoch Times:
It’s not just at the Mexican border that the United States is facing an influx of illegal immigrants. The situation is getting worse at the northern border with Canada as well. In the northeastern Swanton Sector, illegal immigrant apprehensions this year alone have exceeded the total of the past decade. “Over 6,100 apprehensions from 76 different countries in just 11 months, surpassing the last 10 years combined,” Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia said in a Sept. 6 post on X.
