The worsening crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, where 15,000 unaccompanied, largely Central American minors are being detained in cramped, inhospitable Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) centers, prompted high-ranking officials from the Biden administration to travel to Mexico yesterday to meet with Foreign Ministry, immigration and other officials of the López Obrador government, to discuss how to address the unending flow of immigrants from Central America and Mexico toward the U.S. border.
According to Mexican media, Roberta Jacobson, Special Adviser to the U.S. President for the Southwest Border, Juan Gonzalez of the National Security Council and Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle Ricardo Zuñiga will propose a “regional development project” for southern Mexico and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), although nothing has been publicized about this plan, and what comes out of these meetings remains to be seen. Zuñiga and Gonzalez are scheduled to go on to Guatemala where they will meet with President Alejandro Giammattei and other government officials, and members of civil society.
