Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador challenged President Biden on his “forgetfulness” to assist Latin American nations throughout the North American Leaders’ Summit Monday. He additionally recommended him to prioritize solving the migration disaster affecting the U.S.-Mexico border While public remarks in most cases struck a nice tone, López Obrador pressed Biden over his “abandonment” and “forgetfulness” to assist Central American nations.
“This is the instant for us to decide to dispose of this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean,” Lopez Obrador stated throughout a press convention Monday. López Obrador additionally stated Biden had the “key” to enhancing lifestyles for the region.
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“You preserve the important thing for your hand,” the Mexican chief stated of the U.S. president. By Tuesday, López Obrador’s remarks have been greater nice as he recounseled Biden for now no longer building “even one meter of wall,” a clean connection with Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump.
Still, López Obrador entreated Biden to “insist” Congress make greater resorts to permit undocumented Mexican migrants to paintings in industries in which American employers are suffering to hire.
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Mexico’s president additionally spoke at duration approximately his country’s efforts to assist restriction the waft of fentanyl into the U.S . Fentanyl is a artificial opioid that has come to be the primary motive force of drug overdose deaths in America.
“We are scuffling with fentanyl, those chemicals, and we’re doing it due to the fact we care. No human is overseas to us,” he stated. “It actually subjects to us with a purpose to assist with what’s going on withinside the United States, the deaths from fentanyl. But additionally as we mentioned today, it isn’t handiest an problem for the United States, due to the fact if we don’t confront this problem, this scourge, we’re going to go through it, too. So we ought to act in a coordinated way.”
Biden, López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Monday and Tuesday for the North American Leaders’ Summit, in which the 3 global leaders shared their dreams for international trade, coping with huge waves of migrants entering the region, and assisting Ukraine.
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They additionally mentioned dealing with electricity troubles and semiconductors production, decreasing weather alternate impacts — pledging to reduce methane emissions — and, forming a greater cohesive nearby method for handling destiny pandemic-associated fitness threats.
“We’re actual companions the 3 of us,” Biden stated Tuesday at a joint information convention in Mexico City. He additionally stated they every shared a “real like” for one another.
“We proportion a not unusualplace imaginative and prescient for the destiny, grounded on not unusualplace values,” Biden added.
Despite the praise, the leaders have determined themselves at odds this beyond year. The U.S. is urging Trudeau and Canada to assist lead an global assignment to Haiti to assist clear up an ongoing humanitarian and protection disaster
“We want to ensure that the answers are pushed through the humans of Haiti themselves,” Trudeau stated on Tuesday, calling the situation “heartbreaking.”
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Also, the U.S. and Mexico preserve to strategize on how satisfactory to address an inflow of migrants who’re searching for get right of entry to to America. Many of those migrants — in most cases from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela — had been pressured to attend on the U.S.-Mexico border as Title 42, a Trump-technology immigration policy, is ready to expire.
While the Biden management maintains to say the border is “secure,” the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has pronounced there have been greater than 2.three million migrant encounters in FY 2022 alone. This determine tops the then-anciental 1.7 million encountered in FY 2021. So a ways in FY 2023, which started out in October, migrant encounters are outpacing the identical duration final year.