President Joe Biden said Monday at the White House that the United States and Mexico are “equal” in North America, promising to work closely with the Mexican government.
“In the Obama-Biden administration, we made a commitment that we would look at Mexico as an equal, not as somebody who is south of our border,” Biden said in his opening remarks.
“As you know, the fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic,” he said, noting that 60 percent of the Hispanic population in the United States is Mexican-American.
Obrador quoted former President of Mexico Porfirio DÃaz who said, “Poor Mexico, so far from God and yet so close to the United States,” as Biden smiled broadly and chuckled.