President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President Joe Biden will meet on the White Home Tuesday to debate migration. File Pool Picture by Doug Mills/UPI | License Picture
July 11 (UPI) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris individually on Tuesday to debate migration, crime and the financial system after boycotting final month’s Summit of the Americas.
Harris will meet with Lopez Obrador over breakfast on the Nationwide Observatory in Washington, D.C., to stipulate the administration’s efforts to handle historic numbers of migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, earlier than assembly with Biden within the afternoon.
Biden designated Harris final yr to handle the causes of elevated migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to the USA.
The variety of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border in Could was the biggest on document in 20 years, based on U.S. Customs and Border Safety information.
Final month, Lopez Obrador, often known as AMLO, mentioned he would meet with Biden in Washington, D.C., as he withdrew from the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles after the U.S. excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from attending over human-rights considerations.
“I’m not going to the summit as a result of not all of the international locations of the Americas are invited,” Lopez Obrador mentioned final month. “I consider in the necessity to change the coverage that has been imposed for hundreds of years — exclusions, eager to dominate for no purpose, not respecting the sovereignty of nations.”
Regardless of the snub, Lopez Obrador mentioned his authorities will “proceed to keep up good relations” with Biden.
“I’m very sorry not to have the ability to meet with President Biden as a result of I contemplate him a very good man, however he’s beneath robust strain from Republicans, extremists and a few leaders of the Cuban group in the USA, who’ve loads of affect,” he mentioned.
Biden will meet with Lopez Obrador on the White Home later Tuesday to debate migration points on the U.S.-Mexico border. Their assembly is anticipated to cowl safety and crime, together with drug and arms smuggling on the border.
Unlawful smuggling of opioids from Mexico was the main supply of a document 106,000 drug overdose deaths within the U.S. final yr, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
The 2 leaders are additionally anticipated to debate provide chain disruptions, inflation and rising meals and vitality prices fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
