Trees for visas: Mexico wants jobs programme, US offers relief

Mexican President Lopez Obrador and US Vice President Kamala Harris hold meeting to discuss migrant surge, corruption.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pitched a tree-planting jobs programme in Central America that he said should lead to work visas in the United States, in immigration talks on Friday with US Vice President Kamala Harris. At the start of the call, Harris said the United States and Mexico must fight violence and corruption together, along with the root causes of migration in Central America. “Together, we must fight violence, we must fight corruption and impunity”, Harris said.