{"id":1925162,"date":"2023-05-05T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-and-u-s-announce-effort-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-into-u-s\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T23:20:21","slug":"mexico-and-u-s-announce-effort-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-and-u-s-announce-effort-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico and U.S. to broaden legal entry into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexico-and-u-s-announce-effort-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-into-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President of Mexico and U.S. National Security Advisor Announce Joint Commitment to Expand Legal Pathways of Entry into the U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador and U.S. National Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met on Tuesday in Mexico City to discuss the humanitarian situation caused by the unprecedented migratory flows on the shared border and in the region. They announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-south-korea-u-s-work-together-to-contain-north-koreas-kim-jong-un\/\" title=\"Japan, South Korea, U.S. work together to contain North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un\">joint commitment<\/a> to expand &#8220;legal pathways&#8221; of entry into the U.S. <\/p>\n<h3>Opening Regional Processing Centers<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and State announced that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-and-u-s-announce-effort-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-into-u-s\/\" title=\"Mexico and U.S. to broaden legal entry into U.S.\">opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-propose-bipartisan-bill-to-tackle-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Lawmakers propose bipartisan bill to tackle border crisis\">regional processing centers<\/a><\/a> in &#8220;key locations throughout the Western Hemisphere to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbott-transfers-495-million-from-state-agencies-to-fund-border-initiative\/\" title=\"Texas Gov. Abbott Transfers 5 Million From State Agencies to Fund Border Initiative\">reduce irregular migration<\/a> and facilitate safe, orderly, humane, and lawful pathways from the Americas.&#8221; The first centers will open in several countries, including Colombia and Guatemala. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreign nationals will be able to make appointments using their phone to go to the centers before ever leaving for Mexico or the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>An &#8220;immigration specialist&#8221; will interview them and if the specialist determines they are eligible, will process them &#8220;rapidly for lawful pathways to the United States, Canada, and Spain,&#8221; according to the new policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Redoubling Development Efforts<\/h3>\n<p>Obrador reaffirmed his commitment to the plan, saying, &#8220;In particular, Mexico and the United States will redouble their development efforts focused on people-to-people support.&#8221; Mexico also recognizes &#8220;the great potential value of the regional processing centers that the United States announced last week, and discussed how our country can contribute to their effectiveness,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>CBP Data Contradicts Claims<\/h3>\n<p>Obrador said he and President Joe Biden are committed to expanding &#8220;legal pathways with consequences for irregular migration,&#8221; claiming they&#8217;ve already &#8220;achieved a 95 percent reduction in arrivals of undocumented people \u2013 of the nationalities included in the program \u2013 at our shared border.&#8221; However, CBP data contradicts this claim, with nearly 270,000 apprehensions and gotaways reported at the southwest border alone in March. <\/p>\n<p>After halting construction of the U.S. border wall and canceling funding for CBP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-reducing-fleet-of-surveillance-blimps-at-the-border\/\" title=\"DHS Reducing Fleet of Surveillance Blimps at the Border\">tethered aerostat radar system<\/a>, a critical tool agents use to detect goataways, the Biden administration is financing expansion of one of Mexico&#8217;s ports of entry to &#8220;modernize&#8221; its shared border with Mexico. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year, Obrador said, which is &#8220;a step that will benefit the Mexican and U.S. economies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador and U.S. National Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met Tuesday in Mexico City and announced a joint commitment to expand \u201clegal pathways\u201d of entry into the U.S. Obrador said the countries were taking \u201cadditional measures to address the humanitarian situation caused by the unprecedented migratory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[25937,9681,4431,5370,7238],"class_list":["post-1925162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-broaden","tag-entry","tag-legal","tag-mexico","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}