US President, Joe Biden, Visited this Sunday for the first time since arriving at the White House limit Mexicanconflicting with immigrant record. The leader came to town My name, It is in Texas and one of the epicenters of the current immigration wave. There he met with local leaders and visited the Las Américas border bridge, which connects the United States to its neighbor to the south. Biden will then travel to Mexico to meet with his Mexican counterpart. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, nearly 2.3 million arrests and deportations immigrants undocumented in fiscal year 2022; 108,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021: Immigration and drug trafficking will be at the center of the meeting between Biden and López Obrador, scheduled for this Monday in Mexico City. Trudeau will join them for a North American Summit on Tuesday.
Before leaving for El Paso, the president announced a limited immigration program to four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, which is swamped by a deep crisis, but the uninterrupted flow includes several other countries. Biden admits that up to 30,000 people will be allowed monthly entry for two years, which isn’t much of a mitigation measure. accuses Republicans of blocking a more ambitious plan. Compatible with Mexico, the program also supports the deportation of those who enter illegally.
US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas, who accompanied Biden on the trip, emphasized that the immigration problem goes far beyond the USA and Mexico. “This is something that is not unique to the United States,” he told ABC’s “This Week” program. “It’s taking over the hemisphere and it’s a regional problem, it requires a regional solution.”
fentanyl
Biden-AMLO will also mark the bilateral meeting fentanyl tragedyA synthetic drug 50 times more potent than heroin, whose production and trafficking is controlled by the state. mexican cartels With chemical precursors from China, according to the DEA, the US drug enforcement agency.
Almost two-thirds 108,000 overdose deaths Registered in the United States in 2021 synthetic opioids. The agency says that in 2022 alone, more fentanyl was seized than needed to kill the entire US population.
That’s why Biden wants to “expand information exchange” about pioneers and “strengthen prevention” with Mexico, said Brian Nichols, the US head of Latin America diplomacy.