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On March 1, 2020 President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador held a virtual summit to discuss pressing issues key to the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship, among them migration. The leaders agreed to cooperate and develop collaborative mechanisms to stem and manage the flow of irregular migration, particularly from Central America, by addressing the root causes of migration.
While Biden’s politics on migration are not overtly anti-immigrant compared to those of his predecessor, the new president and his Mexican counterpart have a long way towards reshaping and transforming the politics of migration in the U.S.-Mexico corridor. For the last 20 years, Mexico has served as the U.S.’s extra-territorial border. Both countries have continuously implemented bilateral frameworks grounded on deterrence, criminalization, and removal, mechanisms that frame migration as security concern rather than a necessity and as a means of survival. If both countries want to
A day after an
SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 U.S.-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult supervision, crammed inside a tractor trailer.
The two incidents the fatal collision in California, and the discovery of the migrant-jammed big rig more than 1,000 miles away dramatize the challenge facing the Biden administration as U.S. officials struggle with a conundrum: How to dismantle Trump-era immigration restrictions, as President Biden has promised to do, without triggering a mass convergence on the Southwest border.
The repeated declarations from the White House and elsewhere seeking to discourage would-be migrants have failed to deter a surge of people hopeful that their turn has come under Biden.