2024-05-01 14:47:34
The leaders of Mexico and the United States of America agreed to eradicate “irregular” immigration, reported the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in its Morning this Monday.
The head of the Mexican Executive indicated that while he was touring the Southeast he received a call from the president Joe Biden with whom you discussed the issue of people on the move
“That those who carry out their legal procedures can reach USAbut that there is no immigration, let’s say, irregular,” said the president.
The last conversation they had was at the end of 2023, when they agreed that on December 27, a high-level delegation made up of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken; of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, White House National Security Advisor, would meet at the National Palace to talk about cooperation on human mobility, regular management of migratory flows and more legal avenues for migration.
The recent call between the president Biden y Lopez Obrador It occurs in the context of the United States electoral process, in which migration is one of the central issues; Even this Sunday the University of Texas and the Autonomous University of Chihuahua published a document in which they considered that as the vote approaches, migrant caravans will increase.
Given this, the interest in “no irregular migration” is such that in the joint statement released by the White House and read by the president Lopez Obrador indicates that “in the short term, the two leaders ordered their national security teams to work together to immediately implement concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings and at the same time protecting human rights”.
On the other hand, the President He boasted that during his six-year term the number of irregular migrants on the northern border has been reduced.
“To give you an idea, of the average daily 12,000 immigrants on the northern border, we have now reached half of that since January. And all this is because support programs are being applied in several friendly countries. Latin America”.
Mexico finances programs such as sowing Life and Youth Building the Future in El SalvadorHonduras, Guatemala and Cuba.
“This has helped and we are insisting… The president Biden “He is very aware that if the causes are addressed, if alternative options are given to people in their places of origin, the migratory flow will be reduced and tempered,” López Obrador concluded.
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2024-05-01 14:47:34