Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that he would consider accepting more migrants than already announced under Biden's plan to address a record surge in border crossings, AP reports.
for up to 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers a month from Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela.
The policy would allow officials to rapidly expel to Mexico up to 30,000 migrants from those nations each month if they attempt to cross the U.S. border illegally.
López Obrador noted that he and Biden already touched on immigration during the Sunday evening drive into the city center in Biden's limousine. "We agreed on addressing the causes of migration" so that people aren't forced to leave their homes, he said.Biden's new policy has already drawn criticism from immigration rights advocates and some Democratic lawmakers who accuse him of expanding the controversial
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