Mexico To Hold Immigration Talks With Regional Neighbours

Mexico City: Mexico will hold permanent discussions on the immigration issue with Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, according to the country’s Foreign Relations Secretary. “I’ll speak today with the Presidents (of the three nations). But we’ve already had conversations with the ambassadors. We talk every week,” Marcelo Ebrard said at the National Palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, adding that talks have been launched on a permanent basis to attend to the emergency.

During Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Wednesday morning press conference, Ebrard said the four countries will be discussing consular matters, protection for migrants and the “complex” issue of border management, reports Efe news. “We have to go over a lot of details and work closely with them. On (Thursday) I’ll let you know what happened with this,” the Secretary said. Ebrard said that following the implementation of a “special plan” with different government offices on Tuesday, thousands of members of a newly created National Guard force were being deployed at Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, one of the steps Mexico is taking to curb the flow of US-bound migrants under an agreement reached on June 7 with Washington. (IANS)

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