U.S. and Mexican officials met Wednesday in Mexico City to discuss how to slow the surge of migrants at the countries’ shared border, where there have been as many as 10,000 illegal crossings into the United States daily in December.
The two sides, led by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met for about two hours.
A senior Biden administration official told reporters that Mexican leaders told the U.S. delegation about new measures Mexico is taking, including cracking down on smugglers who put migrants on trains or buses heading toward the border.
"We were really impressed by some of the new actions that Mexico is taking, and we have seen in recent days a pretty significant reduction in border crossings," the official said.
López Obrador said on social media late Wednesday that "important agreements were reached" to benefit the two countries and their people. He did not detail any specific deals.
