The US Government will soon announce the delivery of 300,000 temporary work visas for immigrants, according to local media in Tijuana, Baja California, the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Adán Augusto López Hernández.
Half will go to Mexicans and the rest to Central American countries in order to reduce tension on the border, according to local media La Jornada Baja California.
“The American Government agreed to grant in the first instance 200, 300,000 temporary work visas.
Half are going to be for Mexicans or for foreigners who are in Mexico today waiting for the possibility of migrating north," said López Hernández, according to the local news outlet Noticias en la Mira.
The politician pointed out that the measure will be announced in the coming weeks by the governments of both countries, according to local media.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to travel to the US to hold a meeting with US President Joe Biden, scheduled for after July 15.
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The Mexican president announced last Friday that he will request a full day meeting with President Biden, since his counterpart has expressed his desire to talk with him on various issues.
López Obrador will insist during his trip to Washington that the White House promote economic support for Central America and temporary visas for migrants.
“I think it will be a full day of different topics, in addition to the fact that he has sent me to say that he wants to talk with me, not only about economic matters, but about various topics, talk, talk, but we are of course going to deal with matters of the economic cooperation that has to do with the support to the countries of Central America”, he commented.
The Mexican federal president added that the purpose of requesting support and migratory visas is to "confront the migratory phenomenon."
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"It is very important to me to deal with the temporary work visas to order the migratory flow," he said.
López Obrador had announced the personal meeting with Biden after absenting himself from the Summit of the Americas, which the United States organized from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles, where the Mexican leader did not attend due to the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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López Obrador said that he will also ask that Mexican businessmen be able to sit at the same table with Biden and the American business community to find joint solutions, in the midst of a possible global recession and inflation without immediate precedents.
In a meeting last Thursday with businessmen at the National Palace, private sector leaders also raised concerns about gas imports.
"They (the businessmen) said they wanted to be there and I proposed that I was going to ask President Biden to accompany us and that American businessmen be invited," López Obrador said.
Questioned about the day of the meeting, the Mexican president said that "there is still no date, surely it will be from July 15, but there is no date."
Economic cooperation, social programs, investments from Washington and visas have been López Obrador's main proposal to face the record migratory flow from the region to the US, which intercepted nearly 1.7 million migrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year. 2021.
