NEW YORK. US President Joe Biden and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed during a phone call this Saturday “continue your productive partnership” in the face of immigration challenges, the White House reported.
“Biden expressed his gratitude for Mexico’s operational support and for taking concrete steps to deter the irregular migration and, at the same time, expand legal avenues,” Washington highlights in a statement.
The two leaders reiterated their commitment to strengthen their efforts to counter the Criminal organizations involved in the trafficking of drugs, weapons and people.
The details of the bipartisan pact are unknown but everything indicates that it will toughen immigration and asylum policy, because it is a condition imposed by the Republicans to unblock in Congress a package that includes tens of billions for Ukraine, as well as as funds for Israel and to strengthen border security.
Furthermore, this conversation takes place at a key moment, since the imminent announcement of a pact negotiated by a group of Republican and Democratic senators that would drastically tighten United States immigration policy is expected.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Mexico and Central America faced in 2023 an “unprecedented” migratory flow towards USA with up to six thousand migrants newspapers that arrived at the southern border of our country.
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This Saturday, hundreds of people demonstrated in California and Texas -both states bordering Mexico- as part of a simultaneous mobilization called by a conservative group against undocumented migration and the policies of the US president’s government to contain the entry of foreigners.