Blinken visits Mexico as migrant caravan heads toward US border | DW News

And a US delegation is meeting with Mexico’s president today as Washington tries to curb surging migration US Secretary of State Anthony blinkin has arrived in Mexico City he’s expected to urge president Andres Manuel Lopez orador to limit the number of migrants reaching the US border Lopez orador has

Said he is willing to help but wants the US to improve relations with other countries in the region as well as increase Aid now the issue is becoming a big political for US President Joe Biden as he approaches the next year’s election as many as 10,000 people a day are being

Detained trying to cross the southern US border migrants stranded in northern Mexico hoping to get to the US border by train for them a wagon is a better option than attempting to reach the Border by bus they say Mexican immigration officials keep pushing them back to southern

Mexico they get us off for buses if we are about to reach the Border we are returned without any apparent reason they demand that we get migration documents but they are not valid because they tear them up in our faces how are we supposed to move forward this is all really hard I’ve

Been doing this for 3 months I fell last night trying to get on a train to go on with my and my children’s Journey they’ve had fever and flu due to the cold weather we no longer have water and we don’t have any idea when we will

Leave this month the US briefly shut some International rail routes between its Southern state of Texas and Mexico because of rising number of migrants Crossing as many as 10,000 migrants a day were arrested at the US’s southwestern border in December this 6,000 strong group are walking along a highway watched by the

Mexican National Guard many migrants and their families come from Central and Southern America they are fleeing poverty and violence and are hoping the Mexican authorities will allow them to continue their Trek North we ask them to let us pass freely to go to the United States we go there

To work and our children to study it’s all we want because we are looking to improve ourselves to have a better quality of life because in our country the situation is getting worse and worse and we are only looking for an opportunity after a month’s long and

Dangerous route the US border fence is in sight but with pressure building in the US to block migrants from entering the country reaching the Border may not bring these migrants the better life they had hoped for let’s speak to DW correspondent Stefan Simons joining us from our studio

In Washington DC Stefon the US wants to curb irregular migration what exactly does it want from Mexico and and what can it offer in return well they want more cooporation from Mexico and what this cooporation entails is sending people back to the south of Mexico closing maybe or making

It harder for migrants from Venezuela from other Ecuador Guatemala and so on other Latin American countries to move into come into Mexico and make it all the way uh to the Mexico or the US Mexico border that also includes um really getting control of the railways again and pre and preventing migrants uh

On mass to use those trains to get uh to the north and to the US Mexican border this is why secretary of state Anthony blinkin and Secretary of Homeland Security mayorcas are in Mexico City today remember just a year year ago about a year ago in January 2023 um President Biden met with

President Mexican president operador to discuss exactly that and this year and and they decided actually to really work on on those issues really to curb migration illegal and legal migration towards the United States but this year was not very successful in that effort that is to be sure and Sh of course

Elections coming up in 2024 how important of a topic will this be for Biden’s campaign it’s an important topic the Biden Administration faces fierce fierce fierce criticism of course from the Republicans and from the border states Texas uh California even Southern California Nevada AR those states which

Really have to face the brunt of migration numbers of those High numbers daily 11,000 12,000 uh migrants just a a few days ago in Eagle Pass uh Texas now 6,000 so this is not sustainable for those communities and they are live it live it against the Biden Administration the Biden Administration has to

Politically speaking really improve specifically if they want to get any points on this for 2024 on the presidential election there the Republicans know what they do and if they put their finger in this wound because it is one for the Biden Administration they have no handle on it

Having said that of course please keep in mind the immigration law in the United States hasn’t been changed in any way or form fundamentally in decades so there is no way that just an Administration or a president can solve it all with an executive order or just

With the flick of a flick of the hand or something Stefan thank you for that that’s Stefan Simons in Washington DC

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Mexico City. He is expected to urge President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to limit the number of migrants reaching the US border. Lopez Obrador has said he is willing to help, but wants the US to improve relations with other countries in the region, as well as increase aid. The issue is becoming a big political problem for US President Joe Biden as he approaches the next year’s election. As many as 10,000 people a day are being detained trying to cross the southern US border.

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