The commission is composed of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of National Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, while on the Mexican side will also include Secretary of State for Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, and Citizen Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
The meeting was agreed in the last telephone conversation between López Obrador and Joe Biden, as the arrival of migrants in this country worsened, an almost mandatory step to reach the United States by land, which, for example, B. does not happen example with Canada. .
The delegation wants to negotiate with the administration on the new immigration measures Biden is committing to with Republicans to stop crossings at the border with Mexico in return for approving further payouts and arms sales to the Ukrainian government.
This meeting coincides with a mega-march of more than seven thousand migrants from numerous countries in the region who are calling on Mexico to expand, not limit, the possibilities to achieve its goals and to allow them to reach the northern border to fulfill their needs Obtaining US visas.
However, the caravan's speakers do not have much hope that a meeting with predetermined goals will result in a solution that is favorable to them and that apparently runs counter to their interests.
It is Blinken's third visit to Mexico this year and on all of them he has addressed the issue of migration, albeit from the White House's perspective on this sensitive issue.
That is, the situation in Mexico is addressed quite ambiguously, which is based on the issuance of a larger number of visas and important investments in the issuing countries in order to create jobs and stop emigration.
It is expected that Blinken will insist on compliance with the Los Angeles Declaration, signed by twenty Latin American countries, which commits to providing migrants with legal residency opportunities so that not all of them go to the northern country.
This is very difficult to achieve due to the economic crisis and high unemployment in almost all countries, except of course Mexico and the United States.
From Mexico's perspective, fulfilling this obligation requires a comprehensive financing plan in the issuing countries.
But coupled with an expansion of temporary work visas and the possibility of making them permanent, and the lifting of economic sanctions, trade blockades and others, that does not stop the exodus but increases it.
Surely López Obrador will offer guarantees to the opposing party to stop actions such as those of the Texas state government and the closure of border crossings and ports, considering the immigration issue an invalid argument and not even proposing solutions to it. .
The meeting is also expected to address the migrant repatriation carried out by the United States, which greatly affects Mexico as it is almost at the level of the application of Title 42 due to Covid-19.
In November, United States Customs and Border Protection detained 242,000 migrants on its banks of the Rio Grande.
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