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Mexico will contribute Fox News Digital has learned that $1.5 billion has been spent on infrastructure on the southern border to improve processing and security, a commitment that came with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s visit to the White House.
Lopez Obrador is visiting Washington DC, where he met with President Biden at a bilateral meeting. A source familiar with the talks said that $1.5 billion was committed by Mexico.
It comes as part of the bilateral meeting held afterwards. Lopez Obrador kidnapped Summit of the Americas in June after disagreement over which nations were invited.
During this summit, the United States announced a number of commitments, including hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to refugee and migrant causes, extra work visas, and expanded refugee resettlement.
MEETING THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, HE WANTS HELP FROM BIDEN TO STOP BORDER Smuggling FROM THE REGION
Mexico has signed its own commitments to expand its immigration programs and launch a new temporary work program.
President Joe Biden speaks as he meets Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
((AP Photo/Susan Walsh))
On Tuesday, President Biden noted other moves his administration has made to secure the border, hit by overwhelming border numbers with more than 239,000 encounters in May alone. He noted joint efforts with Mexico to stop human traffickers, and an operation launched in April to stop both migrant and deadly drug traffickers such as fetanyl.
“we Since April, it has been running a major anti-smuggling operation targeting human smugglers who trade in people, drugs and weapons. “We’ve deployed 1,300 additional personnel for this effort, conducted 20,000 cutoff operations, and made more than 3,000 arrests since April.”
Biden also called more moves from the region.
“But as you know, Mr. President, we need every country in the region to join us in pursuing this multi-billion dollar smuggling industry that preys on the most vulnerable. died in the tractor trailer He was in San Antonio last month,” he said.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador listens to his meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
((AP Photo/Susan Walsh))
It traces the approach of seeing immigration as a regional problem, not just a US-specific challenge. This approach was adopted by the Biden administration at the Summit in Los Angeles with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris He stressed that they are focused on tackling “root causes” in the region, and got multiple countries to sign a declaration of working together on migration.
there, The White House announced The United States has committed to issuing 22,500 H-2B non-farm visas to Central America and Haiti and to resettle 20,000 refugees from the United States in fiscal 2023 and 2024 (a three-fold increase from this year), increase reunification programs for Cubans, and Haitians with immigration. provides an additional $25 million for a related crisis response program and commits to $314 million in funding through the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for humanitarian and development assistance for refugees and vulnerable migrants in the hemisphere.
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The US has also pledged to increase resettlement of Haitian immigrants and introduce a new “Guidelines for Fair Recruitment Practices” for temporary migrant workers, which will be done in collaboration with large companies like Walmart.
“This is just the beginning,” Biden said. It’s more work to point out the obvious. To maintain a humane, orderly migration process, each country must work together; investing in securing borders, screening and registering immigrants entering their country, and repatriating those without the right to stay.”
