Mexican and Canadian legislators condemn U.S. border wall

MAZATLAN, Mexico (PL).— Mexico and Canada today condemned the United States here for the construction of a border wall meant to prevent Mexican immigrants’ movement into U.S. territory.

The statement was adopted by the 15th Interparliamentary Meeting held in this city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa by representatives of legislative bodies in the two countries.

During the opening session of the event, Mexican Senator Santiago Creel, representing the Congress of the Union, and Meter Milliken, president of the House of Commons in Canada, expressed their opposition to the building of the wall.

Concurring as well were deputies from the current government party Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) and the opposition parties Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

Creel said that the adoption of the agreement sends yet another message asserting the need to suspend construction of the wall and to open a dialogue on the issue of immigration between the United States and Mexico.

During the meeting’s opening ceremonies Ruth Zavaleta, president of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, affirmed that one of the priority issues to be discussed was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Zavaleta called for a search for viable alternatives to the agricultural section of the Agreement that has opened the Mexican border to food imports from the United States and Canada, which are subsidized and tariff free.