Mexico Plans Tree Planting, Regional Migration Pitch to Biden
- President Lopez Obrador says will seek regional migration deal
- Tree planting program could be gateway to U.S. work visas
Migrants walk along the Stanton international bridge from El Paso, Texas to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, as they are expelled from the US, on March 29.
Photographer: Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images
Mexico’s president will propose a regional agreement on migration to the U.S. this week and the expansion of his tree planting program to Central America as an option to provide order in the process of seeking entry to the U.S.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would propose the plan to U.S. President Joe Biden at a summit on climate change on Thursday. He said the plan could create more than a million jobs and that participants in the reforestation program should be given a chance to obtain U.S. work visas and, eventually, even U.S. citizenship.