Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Monday he would consider accepting more migrants than previously announced under President Joe Biden’s plan to turn away people who cross illegally into the United States.
President Joe Biden walks with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at his arrival to the Felipe Angeles international airport in Zumpango, Mexico, Jan. 8, 2023.
Ahead of the summit, Biden announced a major U.S.-Mexico border policy shift, with Mexico’s blessing. The U.S. will send 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela back across the border from among those who entered the U.S. illegally. For those who enter legally, the U.S. will accept 30,000 people per month from those four countries for two years and offer the ability to work legally.
It was a notably warm comment given that the men’s relationship has been merely transactional at best and absent the warmth and camaraderie Biden has with some other world leadersLópez Obrador said the two also discussed “the migration issue … we agreed on addressing the causes of migration,” by generating more opportunities for people so they wouldn’t have to migrate.
On his way to Mexico, Biden stopped in El Paso, Texas, for four hours — his first trip to the border as president and the longest he’s spent along the U.S-Mexico line. The visit was highly controlled and seemed designed to showcase a smooth operation to process migrants entering legally, weed out smuggled contraband and humanely treat those who’ve entered illegally. That would create a counter-narrative to Republicans’ claims of a crisis situation equivalent to an open border.
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