Biden to broaden US-Mexican relations, keep immigration at top

Biden wants to establish a more diverse agenda with Mexico, as well as increase cooperation along the US-Mexico border.

Under former President Donald Trump, US relations with its southern neighbour were quite simple: Mexico stopped the flow of Central American migrants from reaching the US-Mexico border and the two nations largely overlooked just about every other aspect of their bilateral relationship. President Joe Biden, who took office almost two months ago, said he wants to change that dynamic, by reinstating a broader agenda with Mexico to include more engagement on climate change and security. He also promised to overturn the antagonistic legacy of his predecessor who called Mexican migrants rapists and said Mexico would pay for a border wall that would stop migrants from entering the US. But Biden’s very different approach to US-Mexico relations may come into conflict with the interests of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing Mexican president known by his initials AMLO, who was able to forge an unlikely working relationship with Trump.