“Friendly and productive” dialogue highlighted at meeting of US-Mexico legislators
▲ The interparliamentary meeting was attended by, among others, the Republican Michael McCaul and the president in San Lázaro, Kenia López, and the deputies Pedro Haces (these last two in the image) and Alejandro Moreno.Photo Victor Camacho
Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, February 7, 2026, p. 5
The meeting held yesterday in San Lázaro between Mexican deputies and US congressmen – both Republicans and Democrats – was “friendly and cordial”, without complaints between both parties, and issues of trade, security and migration were raised, said members of all parliamentary groups.
The delegation of United States legislators was led by Michael McCaul (Republican, Texas), president of the United States-Mexico Interparliamentary Group, and included Henry Cuéllar (Democrat, Texas), Michael Cloud (Republican, Texas), Beth Van Duyne (Republican, Texas), Salud Carbajal (Democrat, California), Lou Correa (Democrat, California), Carlos Antonio Giménez (Republican, Florida) and Dan Meuser (Republican, Pennsylvania).
From the National Congress, four deputies from Morena were present, three from National Action (PAN) – among them the president of the Chamber, Kenia López Rabadán –, two from the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), two from the Labor Party, one from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and two from the Citizen Movement, in addition to a senator from the cherry and another from the tricolor.
positive tone
At the end of the meeting, which lasted a couple of hours, the deputies of the majority bloc highlighted the positive tone in which the unofficial dialogue took place, which took place behind closed doors.
Raúl Bolaños, vice coordinator of the PVEM in the House, assured that the meeting was “friendly and productive,” and in it the US legislators did not express “any complaints at all. We all agree that we have common enemies: insecurity, cartels, illegal migration (sic) and that both countries are working” on these aspects.
Senator Alejandro Murat (Morena), president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Upper House, agreed that the meeting was “extremely proactive” and in it “common problems were raised on the topics of the bilateral agenda, such as trade, security and migration.”
Morenoist deputy Pedro Haces assured that the meeting also demanded “dignified treatment of Mexicans who are in the United States. They are human beings who deserve respect, they are not criminals. That’s how we put it to them.”
“There were no complaints”
PAN deputies agreed that “there were no complaints” from US legislators, but rather they expressed their concerns about issues such as deaths in their country due to fentanyl consumption and the continuity of the T-MEC. Likewise, they said they had touched on the issue of narcopoliticians in Mexico, because “it is impossible not to have raised it.”
Senator Alejandro Moreno, national leader of the PRI, pointed out that his party agrees to work in coordination with the United States to “destroy organized crime cartels,” which – according to him – are “overlaid” by the government. He even asked why there cannot be “joint actions with United States agents,” in the same way that Cuban doctors have been authorized to enter Mexican territory.
