U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar on immigration: ‘We have by no means seen something like this earlier than’
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Sporting his customary cowboy boots and hat, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar paid a go to to the border barrier between San Diego and Tijuana, the place he toured an previous drug tunnel found years in the past.
The tunnel, one in all virtually 90 to be discovered between San Diego and Tijuana since 2009, had a lighting system, air flow, and rails to move medicine, weapons, cash and even migrants, based on brokers conversant in it when it was found.
Salazar stood above it to speak about joint efforts between Mexico and the US to enhance border safety.
He was requested about immigration and the tens of 1000’s of migrants ready to cross the border to hunt asylum.
“The way in which we have now handled migration traditionally between the US and Mexico has not labored so we have to do one thing that’s completely different,” stated Salazar. “This can be a very troublesome and sophisticated situation, migration, we’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than the place the migrant flows which can be coming from everywhere in the world have dramatically modified.”
Salazar was additionally requested in regards to the move of medication into the U.S. from Mexico, particularly the lethal opioid fentanyl. However he deferred all questions on narcotics to Assistant Secretary of State for Narcotics Todd Robinson.
“It’s an evil drug and we’re doing all the pieces we will to cease it on the border,” stated Robinson. “Now we have to be practical, we have now to grasp what’s it in our society that makes individuals flip to those medicine.”
Robinson insisted each Mexico and the US are working collectively to cease unlawful narcotics from attending to the U.S.
When requested about Mexico President Andres López Obrador’s resolution to evict the Drug Enforcement Company from its aerial facility at an airport close to Mexico Metropolis, Robinson stated “good work remains to be going down.”
“We’ll discover methods to work collectively, we’re discovering methods,” stated Robinson. “Administrations change on each side, however our groups are dedicated to working and ensuring we safeguard our communities on each side of the border.”
After spending a part of the morning alongside the border barrier, each Robinson and Salazar left for Tijuana together with different U.S. and Mexican authorities representatives to attend a Strategic Border Infrastructure Discussion board.
