US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone Tuesday ahead of a change in US policy that is expected to spur an increase in migrants at the border common, the White House said.
The Biden administration and Texas state officials are sending reinforcements to the US-Mexico border to prepare for a potential surge in immigration when COVID-19 restrictions, known as COVID-19, end on Thursday. Title 42.
The decree, in force since 2020, allows US authorities to quickly expel migrants to Mexico without giving them the opportunity to apply for asylum in the United States. The policy change is expected to cause an increase in arrival flows at the border.
In a phone call, Biden and Lopez Obrador “discussed the continued close coordination between border authorities and strong law enforcement measures”, the White House said in a statement.
They spoke of the urgency of reducing overcrowding in the north of Mexicoand affirmed their commitment to address the root causes of migration from Central America, the statement said.
The Mexican president said on his Twitter account that the meeting lasted about an hour and in it both reaffirmed their commitment to continue working together on migration with a humanist dimension, drug and arms trafficking, and cooperation for development.
“We are good neighbors and friends”, he added Lopez Obrador about the contact with Biden, which occurred less than two days before the deadline for the withdrawal of a US policy against COVID-19 that for three years prevented migrants crossing the common border from seeking asylum.
Faced with the imminent lifting of that policy known as Title 42, which implies the expulsion to Mexico of those who cross the border, long lines of migrants have accumulated this week in the bordering city of Tijuana, near the extensive wall that divide the two countries.
Images shared on social networks and the media show similar situations at other points along the border.
Source: Reuters
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