AMLO Condemns Texas Plan to Use National Guard for Migrants
- Texas National Guard to apprehend, return migrants to border
- Immigration enforcement usually left to the federal government
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador condemned Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s plan to use the National Guard and state police to detain border crossers as a political stunt.
“It is not his legal responsibility to make that decision, it is something that corresponds to the federal government in the United States,” Lopez Obrador said Friday at his morning press briefing. “Even though we are respectful of the sovereignty of other countries, we see that there are anti-immigrant campaigns for electoral purposes. I consider it immoral, political.”