Mexican president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border
by: Associated Press
Posted: Jul 19, 2024 / 01:43 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 19, 2024 / 01:43 PM CDT
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president called Donald Trump “a friend” Friday and said he would write to the former U.S. president to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the United States.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called Trump, president from 2017 to 2021 and again the Republican nominee for this fall’s presidential election, “a man of intelligence and vision,” despite Trump’s repeated calls to close the two countries’ border.
Mexicans were offended in 2015 when then-candidate Trump claimed that, in many cases, immigrants arriving in the U.S. illegally included “criminals, drug dealers, rapists.”
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/mexican-president-calls-donald-trump-a-friend-and-says-hell-warn-him-against-closing-border/
