AMLO met with US Congressmen under threat of border closure

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, held a private meeting Monday with a group of legislators from the US House of Representatives at the National Palacethe Presidency informed.

According to information, the closed meeting began at 09:00 local time (15:00 GMT).

On the Mexican side, in addition to the leader of the National Movement for Regeneration (Morena), the Foreign Secretary was present, Marcelo Ebrard.

As well Martha BárcenaAmbbadador of Mexico to the United States; Jesús Seade, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) for North America, and Mario Chacón Carrillo, Director General for North America.

The US House of Representatives delegation was led by the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Democratic Party Eliot Engel, which he also attended John Creamer, charge of affairs of the Embbady of the United States in Mexico.

Also badisted by the Speaker of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Jerrold Nadler, the congressman for California Zoe Logfrenof the Democratic Party and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Border Affairs, the Democratic Party Adriano Espaillat, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democratic Party Pramila Jayapal, from the Legal Affairs Committee.

On the Republican side, he only participated John Curtis, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

For the moment, the topics discussed at the meeting are unknown.

López Obrador's meeting with US lawmakers comes at a time when cross-declarations between the two governments on the issue of immigration and the threat of the president Donald Trump close the border and raise a wall.

Last Friday, the President of Mexico said that through the creation of jobs in his country and to "Nobody goes to work in the United States" and he asked: "Let's see how they will do it there."

"You'll see in a short time, because it's the dream I want to realize, that no one is going to work in the United States"badured López Obrador.

The president responded to Trump, who warned that if Mexico did nothing to stop two caravans of immigrants who left Guatemala, it would close the southern border.