The meeting will take place at a time of strong migratory wave. In March, US authorities intercepted more than 221,000 people on the border with Mexico, the highest figure for a month in more than two decades, the AFP agency said.
The two leaders will discuss this problem, as well as “joint development efforts in Central America“, the region where most of the migrants come from, White House press officer Jen Psaki said in a statement.
They will also deal with “competitiveness and economic growth, security, energy and economic cooperation,” he added.
The Summit of the Americaswhich will be held from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles, will be another of the issues that will be addressed between the two presidents, who spoke in person last November on the occasion of the so-called North American Leaders Summit (United States, Mexico and Canada).
The United States is Mexico’s main trading partner but, although the bilateral relationship is close, there are discrepancies.
The Mexican government of López Obrador has not followed Washington’s calls for a strong and common front against Russia for having invaded Ukraine and defends a more neutral position.
The Biden government, meanwhile, recently urged Mexico to act against the murders of journalists in the country.
López Obrador’s relationship with Biden is, however, better than it was with his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, whom Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard accused on Monday of stirring up “anti-Mexicanism” in the framework of the electoral campaign to the mid-term legislative elections in the United States, which should take place in November.
Trump boasted during an act of the Republican Party that he had forced a high-ranking representative of the López Obrador government to accept the deployment of thousands of Mexican soldiers to curb undocumented migration.
Source: Ambito
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