López Obrador describes as "legitimate" the claim of Trump in Mexico for migrants

The Mexican president has said that the recrimination of his American counterpart is "legitimate".

"We do not want to confront each other, we will maintain a position of respect with Donald Trump … he has a vision, I respect him and I consider him to be legitimate"replied AMLO.

The Mexican government will cooperate to prevent thousands of migrants from continuing to arrive at the southern border of the United States.

"The instruction is to support this petition, this request from the US government, it is legitimate that they are unhappy, who makes these claims, we have a design, if not different, yes with some nuances"he added.

Olga Sanchez Cordero, Secretary of the Interior, announced the day before that the authorities would implement a containment strategy in the Tehuantepec Isthmus. One of the goals is to avoid human trafficking.

"How is it that caravans are organized, if they are spontaneous, who promote the organization of caravans, if there are no political, electoral objectives, to reveal all this openly? " says López Obrador.

"There is human trafficking and interest, because it is also to charge for the transfer at the border and other things", he said.

Donald Trump hit Mexico in a tweet on Thursday. He accused him of "speaking but not acting".

"Mexico does not do anything to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants into our country. They speak but they do not act. Like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, who have been taking our money for years and doing nothing. Democrats are not interested in such laws. Maybe we will close the southern borders! "

Kirstjen Nielsen, In charge of Homeland Security in the United States, met the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Olga Sánchez Cordero at the beginning of the week.

The former minister said the Mexican authorities will contain the migrants and not hand over humanitarian visas.

"In the narrowest part of our country (200 km), we will locate the migration, civil protection facilities. We will not militarize our southern borderit's clear and so I told Ms. Nielsen, "Sanchez Cordero said.

"We will not continue to mbadively grant humanitarian visaswe are going to give temporary residence and work permits throughout the south-east … we are looking for an orderly migration ".