President Biden met Tuesday with Mexico’s president on the White Home as each nations face a surge in illegal border crossings and rising variations on power, commerce and the extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the U.S.
Mr. Biden and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned joint initiatives to modernize border infrastructure to enhance the stream of individuals and commerce by means of the busiest ports of entry into the U.S. The U.S. plans to place $3.4 billion from final 12 months’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation towards the initiatives, whereas Mexico dedicated to take a position $1.5 billion over two years, the leaders stated in a joint assertion.
