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Mexico and the U.S. agree to keep border crossings open

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December 29 |

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that U.S. officials agreed to keep border crossings and railroad crossings open at their meeting Wednesday to address the migration crisis.

“There is more and more movement on the border, on the bridges, and that is why we have to be vigilant so that the crossings are not closed. This agreement was reached. The railroad crossings and border bridges are already opening, normalizing the situation,” said the president in his usual morning press conference, highlighting the strong trade relationship between the two countries.

“We are already the main trading partners in the world Mexico and the United States, they are our main partners,” he detailed.

Lopez Obrador met Wednesday in Mexico City for more than two hours with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top U.S. officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, to address the sharp increase in migration.

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The U.S. has suspended several legal crossings at the more than 2,000-mile border with Mexico arguing that it seeks to focus on processing undocumented immigrants.

The Mexican president added that both countries also agreed to have regular meetings to address the migration issue.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry said in a statement that there will be a meeting in January next year in Washington, although it did not specify the day.

Blinken’s visit came as the opposition Republican Party pressures U.S. President Joe Biden to crack down on migration in exchange for accepting more support for Ukraine in the U.S. Congress.

Wednesday’s trip was abruptly announced last week after Biden spoke by phone with Lopez Obrador.

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The number of people seeking to enter the United States without authorization soared this month to about 10,000 per day, nearly double the number before the pandemic.

Few migrants are Mexican. For many years, most have come from Central America, ravaged by extreme poverty, rampant violence and poor harvests, worsened by climate change.

There has also been an increase in migrants from Haiti, plagued by gang violence and lack of a functioning government, and Venezuela, where commodities have become scarce after years of economic chaos.

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“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

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Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

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“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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