On Monday’s version of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) mentioned that Mexico has not been a superb neighbor to the US and that the Biden administration must threaten the Mexican authorities with sanctions if Mexico fails to safe it. its southern border and cease the move of migrants earlier than it reaches the border between the US and Mexico.
Gonzalez mentioned we must always have secure zones in different international locations to course of migrants. “However finally, we additionally want to carry Mexico accountable, accountable for guarding its southern border, and guarding its northern border, to forestall giant numbers of individuals from passing by way of. We have to get Central American international locations to cooperate as effectively. It takes actual diplomacy. It takes communication,” he added. “The true factor. And generally, it takes the specter of sanctions on our southern neighbor for us to do the suitable factor and be a superb neighbor. I do not suppose they had been.”
Gonzalez additionally acknowledged, “What we’ve got to do is maintain Mexico accountable, and inform them, when you do not guard your southern border, we’ll begin punishing you one product at a time, with one downside at a time.” “.
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