U.S., Mexican Immigration Officials to Meet Before Biden’s Visit

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U.S., Mexican Immigration Officials to Meet Before Biden's Visit

U.S. and Mexican immigration officials will meet in El Paso on Saturday, a day before U.S. President Joe Biden’s first visit to the border since taking office, the Mexican immigration institute said on Friday.

The meeting between Mexican immigration chief Francisco Garduno and Border Patrol officials in the Texas border city will aim to coordinate actions to prevent migrants from exposing themselves to risks, the institute said in a statement.

Biden will visit El Paso on Sunday ahead of his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week in Mexico, where immigration will be on the agenda.

Mexico’s immigration institute said a cold front is expected to cause temperatures to drop in the border area and that 200 Mexican immigration agents were deployed to provide humanitarian aid such as shelters, blankets and hot drinks.

The United States had announced Thursday that it will expand restrictions to quickly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian immigrants caught crossing the border illegally.

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