Mexico President Andres Manuel López Obrador is accusing the US Agency for International Development of funding organizations hostile to his administration.
Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan argues the Biden administration is prioritizing the quick release of migrants as National Guard troops are deployed to the border.on Wednesday accused the U.S. government of funding organizations that are hostile to his administration. Wednesday, López Obrador read from a letter he sent to President Biden the day prior.
"The U.S. government – specifically through the [United States Agency for International Development], has for some time been financing organizations openly against the legal and legitimate government I represent," López Obrador said in the letter, calling such actions"interventionist." USAID's goals for Mexico focus on reducing"impunity, crime and violence by constraining the operational space for organized crime in targeted areas," according to its current development strategy.adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall, to discuss coordination ahead of the end of U.S. asylum restrictions at their shared border.
López Obrador made a similar complaint in a diplomatic note two years ago, just before a virtual meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris. He sent a similar letter asking USAID to withdraw funding allocated to non-governmental organizations critical of the government.
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