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Mexico president calls US plan to extend border wall ‘setback’

Mexico president calls US plan to extend border wall 'setback'
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday criticized a plan announced by the United States to extend the wall along the border between the two countries as a “setback.”

“It does not solve the problem. We must address the causes” of migration, Lopez Obrador told reporters shortly before meeting visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the National Palace.

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