LA Mayor Eric Garcetti in Mexico: Obama Should Cut Deportations Associated Press
go to original March 7, 2014

Mayor Eric Garcetti (L) meets with Mexico City Mayor Miguel Mancera. (Office of Mayor of Los Angeles)

MEXICO CITY — U.S. President Barack Obama should cut deportations of migrants and focus resources on the 2 million people in the U.S. who are eligible to become citizens, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said this week during a visit to Mexico’s capital.

Garcetti, on his first foreign trip since taking office in July, said he supports Obama on immigration reform but said families and communities have been divided by the president’s policy of deportations, which have totaled nearly 2 million since Obama took office.

“I understand the strategy behind it, but I don’t think it’s yielded much in that strategy, and I think at this moment we should be looking at opportunities to integrate, not to divide,” Garcetti said in a meeting with reporters during a three-day visit to promote trade and travel exchanges.

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