U.S.-Mexico Migration Talks
As Kevin noted yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall traveled to Mexico Wednesday to discuss immigration enforcement with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
There’s not much concrete reporting on what agreements, if any, were reached.
Blinken took to Twitter/X to state:
As we made clear in Mexico City today, we are committed to partnering with Mexico to address our shared challenges, including managing unprecedented irregular migration in the region, reopening key ports of entry, and combating illicit fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) December 28, 2023
Meanwhile, Obrador took to the same platform to report:
Le pedimos al presidente Biden reunirnos con los secretarios Antony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas y la asesora presidencial de Seguridad Nacional, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, para tratar de manera directa asuntos de cooperación económica, seguridad y migración. Se lograron… pic.twitter.com/QhiaDlAQGT
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) December 28, 2023
Before their meeting, Obrador held a press conference where he called on the U.S. to, as WaPo summarizes,”provide more resources for ‘poor people’ in Latin America rather than putting up ‘barriers, barbed wire fences … and walls’ to stop the flood of illegal migrants at the southern U.S. border.”
-KitJ