Mexico City, May 2 (EFE) 42 after its foreseeable repeal on May 11.
“They told us that they are going to take the measures, in accordance with their legal provisions, to maintain what is working with Title 42 with other legal systems,” said the Foreign Minister of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, in statements to the media. at the end of the meeting, in which he was also present.
Ebrard considered that migrants are being deceived, as they think that when the legal measure, adopted by Donald Trump (2017-2021) and later continued by President Joe Biden to expel migrants on the grounds of the covid-19 pandemic, expires, They will be able to enter the United States without restrictions.
“They have already made it clear to us that it will not be like that,” said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
For his part, López Obrador and members of his cabinet asked Sherwood-Randall for a greater investment to facilitate legal paths for migrants trying to reach the United States by crossing through Mexico.
“What was the insistence of the president of Mexico? The need to invest, particularly in Central America, although not only, the need to expand those legal, documented, regular paths”, explained Ebrard.
Although in previous meetings with the White House representative the fentanyl crisis was addressed, this time it was focused on migratory flows.
In a message posted on his Twitter account, López Obrador said that they were approached “with a humanist approach.”
At the meeting, chaired by the president, Ebrard was also present; the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López; Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval; Marina’s, Rafael Ojeda; or the deputy general director of administration of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Armando López.
The United States, Ebrard continued, expressed its concern about the increase in the flows of people from Venezuela and other countries that are arriving at its southern border, in addition to offering a response to Mexico’s demands for a regulated path.
“He told us that the humanitarian visa program for Haitians, Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans will be maintained. And they have now expanded it to 100,000, and it is something that has gone unnoticed, for people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,” he announced.
In addition, he thanked the US president, Joe Biden, for having sent “an agent so close” to report directly to López Obrador.
Although Ebrard did not comment on the matter, this Tuesday a US official informed EFE that the Pentagon will temporarily deploy 1,500 soldiers on the border with Mexico for 90 days.
All this is happening when it is expected that, before the end of Title 42, migratory flows will continue to grow, after the United States intercepted a record 2.76 million migrants last year and Mexico reported an annual increase of more than 43% in the number of people in an irregular situation in the country in 2022, up to 444,439.
