Mexico's president agreed to spend $1.5 billion to improve “smart” border technology during meetings Tuesday with President Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to spend $1.5 billion to improve “smart” border technology during meetings Tuesday with President Joe Biden — a move the White House says shows neighborly cooperation succeeding where Trump administration vows to wall off the border and have Mexico pay for it could not.
The agreements came hours after the meetings began with López Obrador offering more than half an hour worth of comments. He touched on everything from Americans heading south for cheaper prices at the pump at Mexican gas stations to the New Deal politics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while chiding conservatives and saying the U.S. and Mexico should reject the “status quo” on the border.
Biden was equally conciliatory, saying, “I see, we see Mexico as an equal partner” and shrugging off differences of opinion on policy with López Obrador, “You and I have a strong and productive relationship and I would argue a partnership.” Speaking of the migrant deaths in Texas — which included people from Mexico and Central America — Biden said “we know we have to meet these challenges together.” He said the U.S. and Mexico agree on the need to increase opportunities for legal migration, especially since more workers can help alleviate U.S. labor shortages and potentially help calm rising prices.
“The way out is not through conservatism. The way out it through transformation,” he said. “Transform, not maintain the status quo.” Despite broad agreement on attempting to increase legal migration, the Biden administration has been less clear about how much it’ll urge Mexico to stop people heading through its territory to then cross into the U.S. illegally. That was a key demand of Trump.
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