At a time when a huge caravan of immigrants left southern Mexico on Sunday, December 24, 2023, heading for the United States in Aztec lands, senior officials of President Joe Biden’s administration will meet on Wednesday with the government of Andrés Manuel López . December 27. Obrador.
The idea is to seek new measures “to stop overwhelming illegal immigration,” says Diario Las Américas.
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the outlet said, warned migrants that there will be consequences if they enter the United States illegally.
“You may be returned to your country of origin if it is quickly determined that you do not meet the asylum requirements,” the agency said.
Meanwhile, according to EFE, there are approximately 10,000 people in the caravan. “Thousands of migrants of 24 nationalities walked from the border town of Tapachula, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.”
The majority of immigrants come from Central America, Venezuela and Cuba, the US media pointed out.
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High-level meeting in Mexico
Late last week, López Obrador said the high-level meeting would take place on December 27 at the National Palace.
“Secretary of State Antony Blinken is coming; Mrs. Elizabeth (Sherwood), responsible for Security, and also the Minister of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas,” he said.
According to the President of Mexico, the issues he discussed with Biden by telephone will be addressed: “economic aspects, relations with Venezuela or Cuba; the ‘racist’ behavior of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and especially the increase in migration.”
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Mexico City.
Blinken “will push for compliance with the Los Angeles Declaration, in which 20 Latin American countries, including Mexico, committed to providing legal residency options for migrants so that they do not all go to the United States.”
Immigration crisis in the United States and Mexico
The United States, Diario Las Américas pointed out, “ended fiscal year 2023 with an unprecedented migration crisis, after receiving an exorbitant number of more than 3.2 million immigrants, according to CBP data.”
This is a number “that has only increased, with the influx of 617,865 foreigners in October and November, representing an average of more than 10,200 daily entries.”
December saw historic numbers of people wanting to enter the United States. On Monday the 18th of this month, “the United States Border Patrol was handling the cases of more than 10,800 people, most of whom were asylum seekers, according to data collected by the Washington Office on Latin American Affairs (WOLA),” EFE reported.
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Programs to manage migration in the United States
The Biden administration has so far, as Diario Las Américas points out, “implemented a series of programs aimed at managing an orderly migration, mainly for those citizens coming from Central America, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela.”
One of these is humanitarian parole, “which is being debated in the courts as 20 Republican states have filed a lawsuit challenging the Democratic administration’s actions.”
There is also “the family reunification program, the CBP One application and the opening of offices in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala.” But “none of these government programs have delivered the expected results.”
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Asylum and deportations
On the Republican side, they propose a reform of the asylum system, as they assure that many foreigners “abuse” it when they apply for asylum to access the “automatic legal protection” that the state admits, even if there are no real reasons to to ask for it. .
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In the interest of containing the migration wave, “Republicans and Democrats are also discussing the adoption of a possible compromise that would set a limit on the number of border crossings, after which stricter measures would be applied, allowing rapid expulsions of migrants . the United States illegally.”
With information from Diario Las Américas and EFE
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Source: Eluniverso
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