US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Mexico City on Wednesday to discuss illegal immigration.
Blinken will join Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall for a meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City.
“Secretary Blinken will discuss unprecedented illegal migration in the Western Hemisphere and will seek joint United States and Mexican solutions to border security challenges, including measures that will reopen key entry points on our shared border,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
He noted that Blinken will “emphasize the urgent need for legal avenues and additional enforcement action by partners across the region.”
The visit comes after about 7,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti walked from Mexico’s southern border north toward the United States.
The march was one of the largest since June 2022.
