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Today the tenth Summit will begin of North American Leaders in Mexico City. Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, Joseph Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Presidents of the United States and Mexico, respectively, will discuss the most relevant aspects of the trinational relationship. “Diversity, equity and inclusion; climate change and ecology; regional competitiveness; migration and development; health and safety, on the agenda, reported Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations. For Mexico, the immigration issue and the one related to the application of some clauses of the Free Trade Agreement have been the cause of bitter disputes with Canada and especially with the United States. The dispute over the intervention of the State and the private sector, in the specific case of the right to generate and conduct electricity, has remained in a impasse which is expected to be resolved within the framework of the trilateral trade agreement talks.
The immigration issue has been the stone in the shoe for the leaders of Mexico and Washington since time immemorial. It is expected that, as on previous occasions, in the previous talks between the delegations of the three countries and particularly those of Mexico and the United States, there will be a tentative agreement that avoids an insurmountable disagreement that ruins the Summit. It will not be easy, since it has been the subject of statements and counter-statements about whether those seeking political and humanitarian asylum should wait in Mexican or US territory. To President Biden’s attempt to relax cross-border asylum rules, the governors of Florida and Texas responded with a crude ploy of sending out caravans of migrant buses packed with migrants and literally dropping them off at the gates of federal government offices. , or directly at the homes of Democratic officials.
Biden rectified his attempt to modify Title 42, through which Donald Trump established draconian deportation measures and will be forced to deport thousands of those who were hoping for asylum due to pressure from lawmakers. A principle of agreement emerged when Biden decided to admit the entry of 30,000 migrants, and Mexico granted permission for another 30,000 to remain in its territory awaiting asylum. It is evident that the solution to the problem goes beyond bilateral agreements between one or two nations.
