Biden, Mexico’s president to discuss immigration in virtual talks

US President Joe Biden and Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will talk about the increasing number of the contentious issues of migration throughout their common border this week, the White House stated Tuesday.

The virtual meeting on Friday will cowl the neighbors’ economy, safety, and power issues, Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated.

They can even speak the June nearby Summit of the Americas “and how North America can lead on precedence projects for the place.”

However, the most closely watched topic is likely to be what Psaki called “cooperation on migration.”

The problem of heavy flows of would-be migrants and asylum seekers through Mexico and into the southern United States is a political hot potato for Biden ahead of November midterm legislative elections.

Biden’s Democratic Party is on the defensive against Republican attacks that the situation on the US-Mexico border is out of control, while the White House says it is up to Congress to enact laws fixing what Psaki calls a “broken immigration system.”

The issue is bubbling up again with the planned expiry on May 23 of the Title 42 policy, a health regulation that allowed rapid expulsion of undocumented migrants due to the coronavirus pandemic.

There are concerns that with those restrictions lifted, the already heavy flow of migrants will dramatically expand.

However, following a lawsuit by a group of southern US states, a court on Monday issued a temporary stay on the lifting of Title 42.

Another front in the migration war opened Tuesday within the Supreme Court, which turned into listening to arguments on Biden’s try to drop a policy instituted by his predecessor Donald Trump, forcing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico even as their instances are beneath attention.

Trump imposed the rule as a part of his hardline guidelines, famous at some distance proper, whilst critics called it inhumane, forcing already determined humans into dangerous situations at the Mexican aspect of the border.