Mexican president calls for dialogue with US on migration

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FILE PHOTO: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offers his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on March 26, 2019. – The 500-year-old wounds of the Spanish conquest have been ripped open afresh with Mexico’s president urging Spain and the Vatican to apologise for their “abuses” — a request Madrid said it “firmly rejects”. A folksy populist, he pulls no punches in going after elites and has sought to cast himself as a champion of indigenous peoples. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador sent a letter Thursday to his American counterpart Donald Trump saying he does not want “confrontation” and calling for dialogue with the US on migration.

The letter came after Trump announced tariffs on goods coming from Mexico that he said would remain in place until the flow of “illegal migrants” coming to the US is “remedied.”

“I express to you that I don’t want confrontation… I propose deepening our dialogue, to look for other alternatives to the migration problem,” Lopez Obrador wrote in the letter.

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