US-Mexico border talks yield ‘important agreements’ on rail and bridge crossings

Two countries agree to enhance efforts to tackle human smuggling, poverty and violence and promote legal pathways'

US and Mexican officials have hailed the success of talks held on Wednesday aimed at curbing historically high unauthorized immigration across their shared, 2,000-mile border that risks becoming a humanitarian disaster and an election year political crisis for Joe Biden.

After the closed-door meeting between the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the Mexican foreign minister, Alicia Barcena, the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, hailed what he described as important agreements".