A high-level American delegation will travel to Mexico in the coming days to talk about the migration crisis.
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This was reported by the White House this Thursday (21), after telephone conversations between Presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
With that, Biden asked Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejando Mayorkas, and White House National Security Advisor, Liz Sherwood Randall, to travel to Mexico “in the next few days”.
Therefore, the three American officials should “meet with President López Obrador and his team to discuss new actions that can be taken together to address current border challenges,” Kirby pointed out.
It’s worth remembering that these talks and the trip take place as the opposition Republican Party pressures Biden’s Democrats to make major changes to immigration policy as a condition for approving an emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel.
Kirby said there has been a “dramatic increase” in cross-border migration, much of it from violence-ravaged Central American countries.
In their telephone conversation this Thursday, Biden and López Obrador “shared a similar concern about the increase in migratory flow in recent weeks”, said Kirby.
With this, the two presidents discussed “in general terms what can be done within Mexico to stop this process”, he said.
Some of the possible measures would be to increase checkpoints on railway lines and roads and expand the presence of security forces on Mexico’s southern border, the spokesperson said.