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Biden/AMLO meeting: “Joe Biden has an interest in regularizing migration”

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives for a press conference before heading to Washington, DC on July 11, 2022 in Mexico City.

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By: Marion Cazanove

3 mins

The Mexican president meets, this Tuesday, July 11, 2022, his American counterpart Joe Biden.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, nicknamed AMLO, had shunned the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles last month, he regretted the non-invitation of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Today in Washington, it will be a question in particular of immigration.

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The subject of immigration will be discussed for a long time, between Joe Biden and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (nicknamed AMLO), this Tuesday, July 11, 2022, at the White House.

And for good reason: the American president is harshly criticized for his policy of controlling the southern border.

Every month, more than 200,000 migrants are intercepted by border patrol.

And it's not just people from Central or South America anymore.

For about a year, Mexicans have started to emigrate to the United States again, as a result of the violence and the lack of opportunities in their country.

The Mexican and American presidents have an interest in finding points of agreement on this subject, for David Recondo, researcher at CERI-Sciences-Po, guest of RFI.

“ 

Joe Biden has an interest in regularizing migration, including finding deals for the regularization of Mexican seasonal workers.

He also has nods to give to a Latino electorate, in view of the congressional elections next November

 ”.

For its part, AMLO " 

will seek to establish conditions for regularized access with work visas, but also to negotiate aid for the development of Central American countries 

“, continues David Recondo.

The question of regularized access is essential, especially since two weeks ago, 53 migrants were found dead, hidden in a truck that had taken them to Texas.

Gang violence kills over 50 in Haiti

Residents of Cité Soleil have been hearing the bursts of automatic weapon fire since the start of the weekend.

Two groups of rival gangs clash in this commune which is the poorest in the metropolitan area of ​​Port-au-Prince and, if it remains difficult to establish reliably, the toll is heavy.

According to the interim mayor of the city, there would be at least fifty dead and a hundred injured.

United States: senators summon Facebook and Instagram to explain themselves

Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren say they are "worried" about what they call "censorship" by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

Social networks have deleted information and advertisements about abortion.

However, these did not violate Meta's terms of service.

After the Supreme Court's decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion, information and mobilization messages against this measure multiplied on the platforms.

According to the senators, quoted by Axios,

"it is more important than ever that social networks do not censor truthful information about abortion, as people turn to online forums for information about abortion. right to abortion”.

In a reaction via Twitter, the spokesperson for Meta, Andy Stone, justifies the deletion of the messages by recalling that it is inter alia prohibited

"to buy, or to request drugs on its social networks".

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