“There is more and more movement at the border,” says Mexican President Obrador. For US President Joe Biden, the issue is difficult domestically.
According to Mexico, the United States promised to keep the border between the two countries open, despite numerous irregular crossings. “There is more and more movement on the border, on the bridges,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told journalists on Thursday. The border should not be closed. “This agreement has been reached,” said the Mexican president. On Wednesday he received, among others, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
The US delegation also included Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall. Immediately after the talks in Mexico City, both sides spoke of progress in migration policy without providing further details.
10,000 border crossings every day
US border police have reported around 10,000 irregular border crossings from Mexico every day in recent weeks – almost twice as many as before the corona pandemic. Many of them are migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Ecuador who come to the US through Mexico and want to build a better life there.
Border policy is a particularly contentious issue in the US and extremely politically sensitive for President Joe Biden. Republicans accuse the Democrat of allowing hundreds of thousands of foreigners to enter the country freely – and of fueling fears of an increase in crime and drug problems. (APA/AFP)