- In a call between President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the two leaders discussed “joint migration management efforts.”
- The discussion covered efforts to slow migration and expand legal pathways to citizenship, as well as efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and ways to prosecute gun traffickers.
- The call follows an announcement last week that the Biden administration would return to the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy and begin deporting migrants from Venezuela to Mexico.
- This year, U.S. Border Patrol has encountered more than 2 million illegal migrants.
