US-Mexico talks on migration : What’s at stake ? • FRANCE 24 English

For more on this I’m joined by Dr William Bo he’s a Lector in Latin American History Dr Bo thank you for coming um so anony blinken’s visit to Mexico is to try to find Solutions against immigration so can you remind us please what what’s at Stakes um well for blinken and for the

Amlo government in Mexico this is about a lot more the migration both sides are looking to to gain something out of this which is not simply about the flow of migrants um part of the problem is that the uh US border has been closed at various points um it’s also the fact

That as your report mentioned this is a huge issue in the upcoming election uh but on the Mexican side it’s important as well Mexico introduced a new transit Visa scheme uh which has been very problematic and has meant that lots of people who have come to Mexico with the intention of traveling through

Mexico to the United States haven’t been given that paperwork and when they get to the Border there are still these terrible conditions for people who are being held there under the agreement that amlo made with Trump so what demands might the US make of uh of Mexico well I’m sure they’re going to

Demand a lot they think they’re trying to make this out as Mexico’s problem but of course there’s two important reasons why it isn’t really Mexico’s problem one of which is that most of these migrants are not Mexican they’re coming from Central America from Cuba from Venezuela from Haiti and elsewhere uh and the

Other problem is most of them are not trying to get to Mexico they’re trying to get to the United States what the US wants to do is is make this Mexico’s problem and keep people in Mexico and and actually one of the reasons why there’s so many people there on the

Border is that they’re doing that they’ve closed these Crossings uh but what there’s there’s also another faction in the US government who are seeing this as a security issue having so many people along the border uh and this is why blinkin was accompanied by top officials from the Department of

Homeland Security it’s not just about migration it’s Being Framed as security issue too uh but Mexico has demands too uh and Mexico is in a stronger position to talk about this than it was a couple of years ago uh there are they want to push the US to open talks with Cuba to

Open talks with Venezuela and to start directing resources to the countries of origin in a hope that this will stop this enormous transmigration of people through Mexico as Illustrated in these large scale migrant Caravans and so how is the US dealing now with the this influx of migrants which I I remember as

Doubled actually since the pandemic uh well almost all of them are just being arrested and then and then turned away um or or kept in detention near the border there’s there’s there’s not much uh so-called legal migration going on across the border at the moment

Uh so the US has really slowed down that possibility Mexico has also slowed down the possibility of moving through the country so there are just vast numbers of people who are being kind of held in stasis uh between countries of origin and their ultimate Nation the US hasn’t really addressed the fundamental issue

Here uh which is why are so many people trying to get to the United States it’s not just about the fact that it’s a rich country it’s because the US is involved in a lot of destabilizing policies in their countries of origin and those things need to be linked up for there to

Be any kind of long-term solution to this

Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unusual Christmas week visit to Mexico City as the rival Republican Party presses Biden for a migration crackdown in return for agreeing in Congress to one of his key priorities — support for Ukraine. For more on this, FRANCE 24 spoke to Dr William Booth, lecturer in Latin American History.
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5 comments

  3. US should continue the border wall. Make it Great Wall of US. It should be 3 car wide and have a outpost(house for patrol officer).

  4. What are the Mayors of welcoming cities doing with respect to fire prevention in overcrowded migrant shelters? If an overcrowded migrant shelter catches on fire it could kill over 1000 people. What fire safety plan has been put in place to prevent a fire of catastrophic proportions? I don't hear anything from the Fire Commissioners Office in NY, Chicago or Denver about fire prevention efforts that provide structure in the form of resources (i.e. licensed fire guards, redundant active suppression systems, smoke detector and CO detector installations etc.)? Why hasn't the Gov. from NY, IL or CO declared a state of emergency regarding unsafe conditions with respect to unhoused migrants in their States? Where is FEMA? I don't hear anything from Dept. of Homeland Security Dir Pete Butigieg either. Every Migrant shelter should have a crew of off duty Firefighters on site 24 hours a day so fires can be dealt with while they are small. Taxpayers have a right to know how this potential fire problem is being handled.

    Chief Hughes

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  5. 3:10 I am so shocked that they are allowing him to actually say that😱. Yes If US and Europe don't want refugees, economic or otherwise fleeing a war zone, then they shouldn't start wars in those countries. They shouldn't interfere with the governance of those countries and they shouldn't put sanctions on those countries. But will they ever listen. I don't know.

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