As things heat up for the annual increase in migration across the US/Mexicoan border ….
The Biden admin finds that even as it works to make the ‘processing’ of those migrants allowed into the country more humane?
The sheer number of humans showing up at the border requires NOT changing everything done in the last four years…
With no help from Congress?
Another American President has to go it alone on the countries immigration policy…The rule’s change with each next occupant of the Presidency ….
It does appear that Biden is looking to trade virus vaccine supplies for Mexico’s help on border control and warming US/Mexican relations….
The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to curb the stream of migrants coming to the United States, urging it to take in more families being expelled by American authorities and to step up enforcement at its southern border with Guatemala, according to Mexican officials and others briefed on the discussions.
President Biden has moved quickly to dismantle some of former President Trump’s signature immigration policies, halting construction of a border wall, stopping the swift expulsion of children at the border and proposing a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the United States.
But he is clinging to a central element of Mr. Trump’s agenda: relying on Mexico to restrain a wave of people making their way to the United States.
Anticipating a surge of migrants and the most apprehensions by American agents at the border in two decades, Mr. Biden asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico in a video call this month whether more could be done to help solve the problem, according to Mexican officials and another person briefed on the conversation.
The two presidents also discussed the possibility of the United States sending Mexico some of its surplus vaccine supply, a senior Mexican official said. Mexico has publicly asked the Biden administration to send it doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has not been approved for use in the United States.
Mexican officials contend that the efforts to secure vaccines are separate from the negotiations over migration. But they acknowledge that relations between the United States and Mexico, which has suffered one of the world’s deadliest coronavirus epidemics, would be buoyed by a shipment of doses south.
“Both governments cooperate on the basis of an orderly, safe and regular migration system,” Roberto Velasco, director general for the North America region at Mexico’s foreign ministry, said in a statement, referring to the engagement between the two countries on migration and vaccines.
Biden gets Mexico to help the US on immigration….
Mexico instituted restrictions on nonessential travel starting Sunday at its border with Guatemala as the U.S. grapples with an influx of Central American migrants attempting to enter the country.
Under the new regulations, Mexico is only allowing essential travel across the border it shares with Guatemala, with the Mexican government saying the limitations are focused on reducing the spread of COVID-19, The Associated Press reported.
But the restrictions come at the same time that Mexico is under pressure to reduce the levels of migration heading toward the U.S. Besides its previous agreement with the U.S. regulating non-essential travel, Mexico has not instituted health restrictions on those entering its country…
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