President of the United States, Joe Bidenassured on Tuesday that he gets along well with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador and that he “keeps his word.”

“He seems like a straightforward person to me. He never teased me. He knows what he wants. Keeps his word. “That’s all I can ask for,” he told the publication. Univision about whether he has a good relationship with Lopez Obrador.

The Biden administration has maintained a healthy cooperative relationship with López Obrador. despite controversy and criticism from the Mexican President to some US immigration and security policies.

This Tuesday, for example, Lopez Obrador reproached the US and Canada for expressing an “ambiguous position” following the Ecuadorian government’s attack on the Mexican embassy in Quito last Friday, contrary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.

López Obrador, who maintained regular and civil relations with Biden during the American presidency, also said that “won’t make a mistake” by supporting a Democrat for his re-election this November or his opponent, former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021).

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In his interview, Biden also mentioned Lopez Obrador’s proposal to curb illegal immigration that reaches the southern border of the United States and which, according to the Mexican, should include an investment of 20 billion. dollars and the end of sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba.

“Before Obrador came up with this plan, I had already started it many years ago,” he said.

According to the president, illegal immigrants are heading to the United States because “they have no alternative.”

“What we did, and what worked until they cut it (due to lack of funds from Congress), is to provide an opportunity to create jobs in the countries they are leaving. People don’t want to leave where they come from.. “People want to know they have the opportunity to make a living, and they choose to do it where they are,” Biden said.

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In 2021, Biden introduced an immigration plan that included legalizing people who came to the country undocumented as minors. so-called “dreamers”and included proposals to strengthen border security and investment plans in Central America to address underlying immigration problems, which did not receive support from Congress. (EFE)