President Biden told his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a call on Friday that he intended to reverse former President Trump’s “draconian immigration policy”.
The whole picture: The Biden administration has already begun repealing several of Trump’s immigration policies, including spending a 100-day freeze to deport many unauthorized immigrants, halting work on the southern border wall and reversing plans to undocumented people be excluded from the 2020 census.
- Biden has also introduced an ambitious immigration bill.
What they say: “The president outlined his plan to reduce migration by addressing its root causes, increasing resettlement capacity and legal alternative immigration routes, improving border processing to assess asylum applications, and reversing the previous government’s draconian immigration policy. call said.
- “The two leaders have agreed to work closely together to stem the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States, as well as to promote development in the Northern Triangle of Central America. They also emphasize the importance of coordination around the COVID. Combat 19 pandemic, acknowledges. “
López Obrador tweeted that Biden was ‘friendly and respectful’.
Note: López Obrador was one of the last great world leaders to congratulate Biden on his victory in the election, and waited to do so until the Electoral College confirmed the election result.