President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador obtained yesterday in Mexico Metropolis a delegation of senior officers from the USA led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas, and White Home Homeland Safety Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. President López Obrador thanked President Joe Biden for sending the U.S. delegation to Mexico following the 2 leaders’ phone dialog final week targeted on migration administration.
The 2 international locations reaffirmed their current commitments on fostering an orderly, humane, and common migration. This contains reinforcing our partnership to handle the basis causes of migration, corresponding to poverty, inequality, democratic decline, and violence, and for the 2 international locations’ initiative for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Ongoing cooperation additionally contains enhanced efforts to disrupt human smuggling, trafficking, and prison networks, and persevering with the work to advertise authorized as a substitute of irregular migration pathways. Additionally, each delegations agreed on the significance of sustaining and facilitating the important bilateral commerce at our shared border.
President López Obrador highlighted the dedication of President Biden to pursue common, orderly, and safe migration. He burdened the necessity to proceed the diplomatic and political engagement with all international locations within the area, in addition to investing in bold improvement applications all through the complete hemisphere of the Americas. Each delegations underlined the efforts that the Biden administration is pursuing by improvement help and humanitarian support, in addition to advancing new personal investments within the area.
The delegations additionally mentioned the good thing about regularizing the scenario of long-term undocumented Hispanic migrants and DACA recipients, who’re a significant a part of the U.S. economic system and society.
The 2 delegations agreed to satisfy once more in Washington in January 2024 to proceed to advance our robust partnership on migration administration.
President López Obrador was accompanied by Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Secretary of International Affairs; Luisa María Alcalde Luján, Secretary of the Inside; Gen. Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Secretary of Protection; Alm. José Rafael Ojeda, Secretary of the Navy; Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of Safety and Citizen Safety; Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, Mexican Ambassador to the USA; Arturo Félix Medina, Undersecretary of Human Rights, Inhabitants and Migration, SEGOB; Roberto Velasco Álvarez, Head of the Unit for North America; and Armando López Cárdenas, Advisor to the Commissioner, INM; and Alejandro Celorio, Authorized Counselor, SRE.
On behalf of President Biden, the USA was represented by Antony Blinken, Secretary of State; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Safety; Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, White Home Homeland Safety Advisor; Ken Salazar, United States Ambassador to Mexico; and Katie Tobin, Deputy Assistant to the President and NSC Coordinator for the Los Angeles Declaration.
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