Biden, AMLO Agree to Increase Return of Migrants to Home Nations
- ‘I know it’s not easy,’ Biden says of shared border challenges
- Meeting follows US-China agreement to crackdown on fentanyl
Joe Biden, right, speaks with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a bilateral meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 17.
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President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador agreed to increase efforts to return detained migrants back to their home countries, according to senior US officials, during a meeting between the two leaders Friday.
Biden and AMLO, as the Mexican president is known, met in San Francisco on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit for discussions on the challenges posed by migration, border security and fentanyl trafficking.