Secretary of State Travels to Mexico

Immigration remains in the news during the holiday season.  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall travel to Mexico today to discuss immigration enforcement with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The meeting comes as migrants continue to cross the border into the United States.

“What’s unfolding at the border is a humanitarian crisis like I haven’t seen in my years of reporting,” NPR’s Jasmine Garsd says. Advocates tell her that there is a lot of fear that Washington is returning to Trump-era policies. They also point to serious human rights abuses since the U.S. delegated immigration enforcement to Mexico. Garsd adds that there’s a sense of urgency to this meeting. 

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