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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 27, 2023

A U.S. delegation is meeting with Mexico’s president today in an attempt to have Mexico do more to limit a surge of migrants at the southwestern border, the Associated Press reports. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he is willing to help, but wants to see progress in U.S. relations with Cuba and Venezuela, two of the top sources of migrants, and more aid for the region. The number of people apprehended at the southern border exceeded two million in both 2022 and 2023. In September alone, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 200,000 migrants crossing the border and a new caravan of some 7,000 people recently left southern Mexico bound for the U.S. border. The BBC has more on that story.