New Delhi: The leaders of the United States and Mexico Sunday discussed ways to deepen regional and bilateral cooperation, with a key focus on migration, said a joint press statement by the two countries.
The joint statement said that US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador have ordered their national security teams to work together to implement “concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings while protecting human rights”.
“The two leaders discussed how to effectively manage hemispheric migration, strengthen operational efficiency on our shared border, and thereby improve the security and prosperity of citizens of both countries,” the statement said.
Biden and López Obrador also said they would advance initiatives to address the root causes of migration throughout the Western Hemisphere, noting that “increasing shared prosperity and security will be of critical importance in effectively addressing the migration challenge over the longer term”.