Thread: MEXICO PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP U.S. BORDER WALL

BY REUTERS ON 3/16/17 AT 6:53 AM

Mexican presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump's planned border wall and his administration's treatment of immigrants.

Lopez Obrador, a fiery leftist who has led recent polls for the 2018 election, said he expects the commission to "speak out in accordance with the law to protect immigrants from the harassment they are suffering since Trump took office."

Trump has ordered a wall built along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, has moved to strip federal funding from "sanctuary" states and cities harboring illegal immigrants, and expanded the force of U.S. immigration agents.

During his election campaign, Trump described Mexican illegal immigrants as rapists and criminals and insisted that Mexico would pay for the wall. That caused simmering diplomatic tension and angered everyday citizens south of the border.

Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and two-time runner-up for the presidency, said he hoped the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights would view Trump's moves as a "violation of human rights and discriminatory."

The commission, an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), is tasked with promoting and protecting human rights in the American hemisphere.

http://www.newsweek.com/andres-manue...er-wall-568681

Maybe they should focus on Human Rights on their own soil. I hope this backfires and they go after MEXICO, their corruption and their human trafficking and drug rings.

They cannot tell us what to build on our soil.

We are a sovereign nation and can build a border barrier to protect our sovereignty without yours or anybody else's permission.

As a sovereign nation, we control our immigration laws which includes enforcement to the benefit of our citizens, not to the benefit of Mexico or Mexican Nationals who entered our country illegally.

Lopez Obrador sounds like a liberal little girl that needs to stop crying about America and worry about fixing Mexico's problems instead.

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