The meeting between President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Secretary of State Antony Blinken this Wednesday produced several agreements, including the intensification of efforts to “interrupt human trafficking, human trafficking and criminal networks and continue to work to promote avenues of legal human mobility.” Diplomatic and security delegations from both countries met in Mexico to try to stop the “unprecedented” arrival of migrants at the United States border, which has resulted in inhumane renditions due to violence, political repression and poverty in much of the country their families are forced to Latin America. The joint statement from both countries does not mention ways to stop the coyotes trafficking these people, which has recently become big business for organized crime.
The surge in migration in these final months of the year, with thousands of people crowding the banks of the Rio Grande every day, led to several border crossings remaining closed last week, in turn causing millions of dollars in losses that they complained about. Mexican businessmen. The meeting, described as warm and friendly, addressed this issue and ended with the American commitment that these trade routes will remain open in the future. They prefer to focus, the statement says, on “promoting orderly, humane and regular migration,” which includes addressing the causes of these exodus through cooperation between Central American countries. Specifically mentioned is “the joint initiative for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans”, in line with the agreements reached at the recent summit in Palenque, where, at the invitation of Mexico, heads of state and government of these nations met to discuss the causes of migration and its possible causes address solutions.
In the dead of winter, hundreds of thousands of migrants continue to cross Central American countries until they complete their journey to the border through Mexico, one of the most dangerous and corrupt journeys for these people.
President López Obrador advocated continuing diplomatic engagements with countries in the region and “investing in ambitious development programs throughout the American hemisphere.” Both delegations emphasized the White House's willingness to provide humanitarian and development assistance in addition to encouraging “new private investment in the region.”
Likewise, “the benefits of regularizing the situation of Hispanic migrants who have been living undocumented for several years and the beneficiaries of the document proving that they have arrived in childhood and who today represent “an important part of the American economy and society” were also highlighted , addressed.
The Mexican president's good relations with his northern neighbor will be reflected in new regular meetings, the next one in January next year. This latest bilateral meeting, in which Blinken was accompanied by Secretary of State for Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House National Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, was preceded on December 5 by the visit of Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen, who met with their counterparts in Mexico to discuss financial and economic measures to choke off criminals' financing and money laundering channels. The trade in fentanyl and weapons comes on top of trafficking and extortion of migrants, the three main problems that are most straining relations between the two countries.
Joe Biden, López Obrador said this morning, is the only tenant of the White House in recent times, among both Democrats and Republicans, who has not had any influence on the need to build walls to separate the borders, which the Mexican president expressed in words I commend him to emphasize once again the good relations that were confirmed yesterday during the warm welcome of the American delegation.
The economies of both nations are linked by strong economic ties that are unavoidable for both, despite the political unrest caused, especially in the United States, by the presence of migrants at its border, which Republican opposition often insults to Democrats uses.
The truth is that neither the walls nor the restrictive measures implemented in the coldest moments between the two governments have succeeded in stopping the enormous influx of people fleeing the misery in their countries. On the contrary, the precarious economic and political situation of countries such as Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua has recently driven hundreds of thousands of compatriots from their nations, without the usual torments of travel being able to dissuade them from the journey. March.
These days, a new caravan of thousands of migrants is moving from the south to the north of Mexico to reach the United States. However, in some areas such as Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abott has dictated dramatic measures to stop the presence of migrants, such as deporting them if they are found undocumented in the state. And buses full of people continue to be sent to New York or Washington to protest against Biden's democratic policies.
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