The Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, will address migration and border issues in their phone call on Friday, State Department sources said on Wednesday.
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Although without giving details, the sources recall that the request for dialogue came from the White House as Biden unveiled a six-point migration plan, used as a pretext for going to Mexico to migrants, in light of the potential repeal of Title 42 of a health regulation to return.
This plan envisages strengthening the border with Mexico, and one of its points is to improve the efficiency and handling of cases at the border in order to alleviate the congestion of immigration stations. A federal judge in Louisiana announced that he will block the government’s decision to end Title 42 on May 23.
The White House has pledged to honor the Louisiana judge’s decision if his lockdown order is issued.
Contradictory is that after Title 42 is repealed, the Biden administration intends to significantly expand rapid border deportations through Title 8, the standard by which the United States conducts deportations.
The expansion of these rapid deportations of migrants is one of the pillars of the plan unveiled this Tuesday, which also envisages a reinforcement of the troops stationed at the border with 600 more for the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP).
It is very likely that the president will provide further clarifications over the phone on Friday to his Mexican counterpart, in which López Obrador, according to the State Department, will ask his neighbors for a new policy towards Latin America as a whole and greater cooperation to attack the root causes of migration.
Another pillar of the Biden initiative, according to sources, is centralizing the efforts of various government agencies and modernizing procedures through the use of digital tools.
Also, increase work with NGOs so that these migrants can take in after their cases have been processed by the CBP and they await a decision on whether they can remain in the United States or be deported.
(taken from PL)