President Biden told his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday that he planned to reverse former President Trump’s “draconian immigration policies.”
The big picture: The Biden administration has already begun repealing several of Trump’s immigration policies, such as ordering a 100-day freeze on the deportation of many unauthorized immigrants, stopping work on the southern border wall, and reversing the plans to exclude undocumented people from the 2020 census
- Biden has also introduced an ambitious immigration bill.
What they say: “The president outlined his plan to reduce migration by addressing its root causes, increase resettlement capacity and alternative legal immigration routes, improve border processing to grant asylum applications, and reverse draconian ones. immigration policies of the previous administration, “a White House book published said the call.
- “The two leaders agreed to work closely to curb the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States, as well as to promote development in the North Central American Triangle. They also recognized the importance of coordination in combating the COVID- pandemic. 19. “
López Obrador he tweeted that Biden was “kind and respectful.”
It is necessary to emphasize: López Obrador was one of the last great world leaders to congratulate Biden on his electoral victory, hoping to do so until the Electoral College affirms the election results.