Foreign Affairs Secretary Highlights Need for Positive Relationship with US Bryan Anderson - News & Observer
go to original June 17, 2016

Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Mexico's foreign affairs secretary, talks about how the lack of understanding people have about the contributions Mexico makes to the United States. (NewsObserver.com)

At a time when the U.S. presidential election is creating some strong rhetoric about immigration, Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary emphasized the importance of maintaining a positive relationship with the United States during a talk in Raleigh on Thursday.

Asked whether she could conceive of a wall being built between the two countries – as presumed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested – Massieu said Mexico and the United States cannot afford to become increasingly divided.

“We’ve learned from experience that we do a lot more good things when we are together,” she said. “We are greater together than we are apart.”

Though Massieu declined to invoke Trump’s name or to talk about the electoral processes of other countries during her National Public Affairs Forum talk, she said the United States must be committed to working with Mexico.

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