Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he will organize a meeting on the growing migratory flow with multiple countries on October 22 in the city of Palenque, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The announcement was made during a press conference on Monday, October 9.
“We need more action, that’s why this initiative,” said López Obrador.
According to López Obrador, the countries of Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica and Panama have been invited to attend. He added that these are the countries that drive migration or the places where migrants transit on their way to the United States.
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López Obrador said Mexico has a good relationship with the invited nations and plans to present them with a proposal. While López Obrador did not go into details of the measure, he said he intends to focus on the root causes of migration, rather than just discussing “coercive measures, checkpoints, walls and militarization of borders.”
The announcement comes as the United States faces a surge in migration, with more than 200,000 migrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol last month, the highest total in a month this year.
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