2023-12-28 23:39:15
The immigration crossings will remain open despite the constant arrival of people.
Courtesy France 24 | In January a delegation from Mexico will travel to the United States
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed this Thursday, December 28, that his Government and that of the United States seek to “normalize the situation” on the common border after his meeting on migration with a delegation headed by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
“There is more and more (economic) movement on the border, on the bridges, and that is why we have to be vigilant so that the crossings are not closed, that agreement was reached, the crossings are already being opened for the railway and the bridges border crossings, normalizing the situation, progress was made in that,” López Obrador said in his morning conference.
The president described the conversation with Blinken as “very good”; the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and the White House National Security Advisor, Elizabeth-Sherwood Randall, who made an urgent visit due to the unprecedented rebound in the migratory flow in December.
Among the agreements of the meeting, which was held secretly and without public messages, the Mexican president highlighted the formation of a work team to address migration.
“We are going to have periodic meetings, the teams have already been formed, he is going to go to Washington, not me, but the security cabinet and those responsible: the Secretary of Relations, the Secretary of Security, the Secretary of Defense, the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, as it has to do with migration,” he explained.
“And they will also be with us, there will be a constant exchange,” he added.
The migratory flow continues at full speed
The visit occurs while this December there are historic numbers of people seeking to enter the United States at the border with Mexico, where the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Tuesday the arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants from January to November.
The migratory surge led the United States to temporarily close the border rail crossings in Eagle Pass and El Paso, both in Texas, as well as the entrances to the Amistad Dam International Bridge (Texas), San Ysidro (California) and Lukeville (Arizona).
“All this starts because he asks President (Joe) Biden to talk to me, concerned about the situation at the border because a number of migrants were reached that had not been seen, I think 10,000 or 12,000 a day on the northern border, and This led to customs and railroad border crossings being closed,” López Obrador acknowledged.
López Obrador also said that the caravan traveling towards the United States is currently in the state of Chiapas and continues to decline as the number of migrants has decreased to around 1,500.
The agreed
In the joint statement issued by Mexico and the US after the meeting, they stated that they discussed the “benefits of regularizing the situation of Hispanic migrants who have been undocumented for several years and beneficiaries of Dhaka.”
The statement added that both nations reaffirmed their commitments to strengthen their collaboration to “address the root causes of migration, such as poverty, inequality and violence, as well as a joint initiative for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.”
“Continued cooperation also encompasses intensified efforts to disrupt human smuggling and trafficking and criminal networks, and continuing to work to promote legal rather than irregular human mobility pathways. Furthermore, both delegations agreed on the importance of maintaining and facilitating vital bilateral trade on our shared border,” the statement reads.
Mexican leaders will visit Washington next month to meet with Biden Cabinet officials and continue discussions on how to stem the influx of illegal migration into the United States, according to the US National Security Council.
A spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) called this week’s trip “productive” and said President López Obrador “has taken important new law enforcement measures” when it comes to migration.
Still, U.S. officials acknowledge that both countries will need to do more work on migration.
The meeting in Washington, scheduled for January, “will assess progress and decide what more can be done,” according to the NSC.
“We continue to address root causes and build legal pathways that incentivize orderly migration and enforcement of our laws,” the official said.
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