The president of the United States, Joe Biden offered a message on the immigration system before the trilateral meeting on the occasion of the North American Leaders Summit that he will have in Mexico with his counterparts, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.

In this sense, the 80-year-old president announced a new migration strategy to contain the flow of undocumented migrants at the border with Mexico. The United States will allow up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter each month, but will tighten restrictions on those trying to cross the border with Mexico.

Mexico will accept up to 30,000 deported migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela, according to a White House fact sheet. In November, US border agents encountered 82,000 migrants of these nationalities at the border with Mexico, according to government data.

The American politician assured that “these measures will expand and accelerate legal pathways for orderly migration and have new consequences for those who do not use these legal pathways“, he said from the White House this Thursday in a statement to the press in the company of the vice-president, Kamala Harris.

The quota of migrants will be limited to those who have a american sponsorand those who attempt to enter illegally will be deported under the health regulations known as Title 42 and with police intervention, in coordination with Mexico.

Beneficiaries of this measure proposed by the American president establish that accepted migrants will be able to stay legally in the country for a period of two years and will be able to apply for a temporary work authorization valid for the authorized duration of stay.

The Democratic president used his message ahead of his visit to Mexico to announce he will meet in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, his first trip to the southwest border since taking office and which comes as Republicans continue to criticize his approach. to border security.

Biden Jr. made a called on Republicans to stop blocking his immigration reform proposals and border measuresand for the US Congress to respond to its initiatives and provide the resources necessary to carry them out.

It should be noted that one of the unknowns left hanging in his press conference was his position on the reapprehension of Ovide Guzman Lopezone of the “little boys” who run the Sinaloa Cartel in the Jesús María union, in the midst of a strong operation in which federal, state and local forces participated.

Between January 9 and 11, 2023, leaders from Mexico, Canada and the United States will gather at CDMX for a series of meetings. The meetings will focus on crucial issues on the common agenda, including the migration, labor mobility, security, climate change, culture, educationas well as the strengthening of commercial relations.

In recent years, one of the most relevant issues in Mexico’s joint planning with the United States, mainly, is the attention paid to the border between the countries. The strengthening of infrastructure projects in the said region will also be discussed. In the same way, the Sonora Plan will be present, whose purpose is the development of clean energy.

During the days, some bilateral meetings will take place between the delegations of the participating countries. It’s only the 10 that one private trilateral meeting in which areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, environment, competitiveness with the rest of the world, migration and development, health and common security will be addressed.

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