Defying warnings that to seek out Donald Trump was to court disaster, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instead emerged from their ...
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador walks with US President Donald Trump as they arrive at a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, Jul 8, 2020. MEXICO CITY: Defying warnings that to seek out Donald Trump was to court disaster, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instead emerged from their first meeting as a"cherished friend" of his US counterpart, even as some Democrats looked on uneasily.
But while Mexican officials celebrated the generous words and warm sentiments, some Democratic lawmakers expressed concern that the encounter had been little more than a campaign ploy by the Republican Trump as he seeks to secure re-election in November. Garcia was one of more than a dozen members of the Hispanic Caucus - all of them Democrats - who in a letter had urged Trump to cancel the meeting, which they condemned as an attempt to distract from the coronavirus pandemic and to politicise US-Mexico relations.
While in opposition, Lopez Obrador compared Trump to Adolf Hitler for his treatment of migrants. He pledged to defend them if he won the presidency, which he did in July 2018.That angered domestic critics of the Mexican leader, who were also upset he did not publicly bring up the wall, or Trump's attempts to repeal a program that has protected so-called Dreamer immigrants in the United States, many of Mexican origin.
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