The review of the migratory flow, the collaboration to deal with fentanyl trafficking, and arms control were the topics to be discussed by the United States and Mexico during a meeting with the White House National Security Advisor, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, and Foreign Minister from Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard.
“The issue of fentanyl and the progress that is being made was seen. Mexico is advancing a lot, especially the Secretary of the Navy, the national security laboratory was integrated, the issue of laboratories and working in coordination is important because crime is becoming more sophisticated every day,” Ebrard said at a press conference outside the Palace. National after the meeting.
Another topic that the foreign minister wanted to highlight was arms trafficking, in which he indicated that the intention of the United States is to control the flow of long arms and pointed out that between 2020 and 2022 in Mexico, 26,000 long arms were seized from organized crime.
In relation to migration, Ebrard said that Mexico, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has made an effort for regulated labor mobility and that the arrival of migrants at the southern and northern borders of the country has been reduced.
Likewise, the Mexican president reported the meeting in a message on his social networks.
“Joint meeting on immigration with Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, White House National Security Advisor; Ambassador Ken Salazar and other public servants of the US government. Special thanks to the governors of Chiapas, Tabasco, Oaxaca and Veracruz,” López Obrador wrote.
“With cooperation for the well-being and humanitarian treatment of migrants, we advance in the good neighbor policy,” he added.
Previously, the Mexican foreign minister had announced that one of the points that both sides would address at the meeting would be the low migratory flow after the end of Title 42, as well as investment in Central American countries to correct the problems generated by the displacement of people.
After the fall of Title 42, promulgated by former President Donald and maintained by the current president, Joe Biden, which, under the pretext of the covid-19 pandemic, made it possible to immediately expel migrants entering the United States, Ebrard He said the border is receiving “only 20 or 30 people a day.”
The last visit of the US official Sherwood-Randall, considered the main White House strategist against fentanyl, took place on May 8, in which they discussed drug, arms and migrant trafficking, in addition to cooperation for the development.
Three meetings are added to Tuesday’s, all of them framed by diplomatic tensions between the two countries over fentanyl trafficking, which the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) assures is produced in Mexico with Chinese chemical precursors, and the new immigration policies.
With information from EFE
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