The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, today described his meeting at the White House with his United States counterpart, Joe Biden, as very favorable and good for both nations.
In his morning press conference at the National Palace, he gave an account of the discussions with Biden and stressed that the main issue was immigration “with the focus that we have maintained for some time now of giving work to people in their places of origin”.
We discussed the need to expand the number of temporary work visas for Mexico and Central America; this was accepted and will be considerably expanded to enter the United States, he said.
The basic approach was to promote productive activities to increase production in the United States and Mexico and, even when there is a trilateral treaty with Canada, to try to remove any tariffs that may exist, and all trade regulations, simplify procedures, eliminate everything that is tedious for production and face the migratory phenomenon, the President affirmed.
We also talked about changing the immigration policy, to leave doors open and fill gaps that are occupied by human traffickers, among other things for the convenience of unscrupulous employers in the United States, who pay them less and can run them off whenever they want.
Other issues had to do with the modernization of customs in border areas and took the opportunity to explain a series of plans at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars to improve them on the part of Mexico, and the United States is going to do the same on its side, he added.
In the case of inflation, he said, it was announced that in the United States this index increased to 9.1 and in Mexico to 7.99 in June, and it is very noticeable that it is increasing in the energy sector, about three percentage points in the neighboring country and 0.6 in Mexico.
He reiterated his idea of strengthening the region, first the three northern countries that already have a treaty, then Central America and then all America.
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