Joe Biden and Mexican president speak migration, coronavirus after nagging tensions

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned he and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden mentioned migration, the COVID-19 pandemic and bilateral cooperation on Friday throughout their first telephone name because the American assumed the presidency this week.
The afternoon name was “pleasant and respectful” Lopez Obrador mentioned in a short Twitter publish, through which he appeared in a photograph smiling, seated at a desk with Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and former presidential chief of employees Alfonso Romo.
“Everything indicates relations will be good and for the benefit of our people and nations,” Lopez Obrador mentioned.
Mexico has a significant position to play in Biden’s plans for immigration reform. Earlier this month, Mexico helped coordinate efforts in Central America to include a big caravan of migrants heading for the United States.

Nevertheless, Biden’s inauguration comes at a time of simmering rigidity over a now-dropped U.S. investigation into former Mexican protection minister Salvador Cienfuegos.
During the decision, Lopez Obrador celebrated the legacy of Mexican migrants within the United States and reiterated that the easiest way to handle migration was to advertise improvement within the locations that gas the phenomenon, Mexico’s international ministry mentioned.

Lopez Obrador mentioned Mexico wished to work with Washington on their “broad bilateral agenda,” the ministry mentioned.
The two leaders agreed that groups from each nations would work collectively to craft a typical method to improvement, and underlined the necessity for joint cooperation to fight the pandemic, the ministry mentioned in a press release.
Mexico’s authorities additionally mentioned it had begun talks with Washington a couple of coronavirus-related order signed by Biden to impose sanitary necessities on individuals getting into U.S. territory.

Earlier on Friday, Lopez Obrador urged the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to mount an inside probe into the way it constructed its case in opposition to Cienfuegos.