The presidents of the United States and Mexico, Joe Biden and Andrés Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would have held a telephone conversation to talk about the migration crisis faced on the border between both nations. In this call, the leaders would have agreed to work together to “significantly reduce irregular border crossings.”
The call was made this Sunday, April 28, and the decision to work together to deal with illegal border crossings comes in a context where immigration issues have become a central point in the upcoming US presidential elections.
For now, both presidents have recognized the need to implement concrete, effective and immediate measures to stop the flow of irregular migrants towards northern Mexico, where thousands of foreigners arrive with the intention of circumventing the checkpoints established in the United States.
Through an official statement, the White House indicated that the specific measures to be taken still need to be detailed, but it is expected that they will take into account border security as the underlying causes that drive migration to North American territory.
In that sense, Biden maintains that a potential response would be to allocate a considerable budget to improve living conditions in the regions of origin of migrants, thus eliminating the need to undertake the journey north.
For his part, López Obrador stated that it was Biden who sought to communicate with him, which he took the opportunity to comment on the need to keep the US border open for the legal transit of migrants.
“Yesterday we talked about keeping the border open for those who complete their legal procedures and can reach the United States, but that there be no, let’s say, irregular migration,” said the president of Mexico during one of his daily morning press conferences.
AMLO, as he is popularly known by the Mexican people, ruled out that there will be a total closure of the border, since most of the trade between the US and the Aztec country passes through these checkpoints.
According to official data, Mexico has already surpassed China as the main trading partner of the United States, carrying out a trade exchange of 738.4 billion dollars in 2023.
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