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Enrique Peña Nieto Criticizes Use of American Troops on Texas Border
The decision of Texas Gov. Rick Perry to station National Guard troops on the border with Mexico “is not only disagreeable” but “reprehensible,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said in an interview published Friday.
Such a policy has no part “in the spirit of cordiality and friendship between two countries,” he told El Universal newspaper.
Peña Nieto said that other U.S. states have “changed their policy and have made it much friendlier, particularly toward the migrant population.”
“I see this attitude as completely reprehensible and it does nothing to solve a problem that we have to deal with together,” Peña Nieto said.
On July 21, Perry announced that he would deploy 1,000 soldiers of the Texas National Guard on the Mexican border because of all the unaccompanied, undocumented children flooding into the United States from Central America.
Perry, a Republican, based his decision on the consequences that the arrival of all those children is having, claiming that criminal gangs exploit the Border Patrol being tied up attending to the youngsters.
In Mexico, Peña Nieto said, efforts are being made to help those children and take them back to where they came from.
“But I believe that those who get to the border should be treated decently, with sufficient care, and according to the immigration policies of the United States – but no, in no way does that mean combating this migratory phenomenon that has increased in recent months with a National Guard on the border,” he said.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/enrique-pena-nieto-criticizes-use-of-american-troops-on-texas-border/31131#When:18:02:50Z
