With a telephone conversation between Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon and his counterpart Antony Blinken, today concluded the working visit of a delegation of officials from the Government of Mexico to Washington, DC The purpose of the visit was to continue the high-level dialogue with authorities of the United States Government, as well as with civil society organizations, in matters of migratory cooperation.
The Mexican delegation held a meeting with a US delegation from the National Security Council, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State, among other government agencies. At the meeting, the officials commented on current migratory flows, both from the countries of northern Central America and from other places of origin.
The dialogue revolved around the implementation of programs and measures to improve migration management towards orderly, safe and regular flows that protect the human rights of migrants and asylum seekers. In addition, they discussed cooperation measures that address, in the short term, the structural causes of migration, as a follow-up to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries, within the framework of Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Mexico.
Additionally, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, and the SRE’s head of the North America Unit, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, held a working meeting with Isabel Rioja-Scott, director for North America of the National Security Council. At the working meeting, the broad agenda of the bilateral relationship was discussed, in which they discussed progress towards high-level dialogues on security and the economy. The officials agreed on the vision and objective of strengthening cooperation ties, in order to advance the shared goals of both countries.
The Mexican delegation met with Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, as well as with Ana González Barrera, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center, in order to discuss the most current migration trends and recommendations on public policy to address the structural causes of migration.
Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma and the Chief of Unit for North America, Roberto Velasco, visited the Consular Section of Mexico in Washington DC The officials thanked the work of all the personnel and the Mexican Foreign Service to strengthen and improve the care provided to all Mexican people, regardless of their immigration status.
The Mexican delegation was made up of Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma Barragán; the head of Unit for North America, Roberto Velasco Álvarez; the legal consultant Alejandro Celorio Alcántara; the head of the Foreign Ministry, Ana Luisa Fajer Flores, and the head of the Hispanic and Migratory Affairs Section of the Mexican Embassy in the United States, José Francisco Anza Solís. For their part, the commissioner of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño Yáñez, and the coordinator of advisers of the INM, Armando López Cárdenas, also attended.
The United States delegation was made up of Liz Sherwood-Randall, advisor to the president; Katie Tobin, Advisor to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council (NSC); Juan González, Advisor to the President and Senior Director (NSC); Eric Sigmon, Director for Regional Protection and Migration Management (NSC); Isabel Rioja-Scott, Director for North America (NSC); Hillary Quam, Regional Advisor for the Western Hemisphere in the Office of Vice President Harris; Ricardo Zúñiga, special envoy for the Northern Triangle of the Department of State (DoS, for its acronym in English); Emily Mendrala, Assistant Assistant Secretary (DoS); Katherine Dueholm, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary (DoS); Marta Youth, Assistant Assistant Secretary (DoS); Serena Hoy, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); David Shahoulian, Assistant Secretary (DHS); Mike Huston, Senior Advisor (DHS); Troy Miller, Acting Commissioner for Customs and Border Protection (CBP); and Tyler Moran, Senior Migration Advisor for the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) in English).
–
