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FILE - In this June 25, 2021 record photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to the media aft helium and Vice President Kamala Harris toured of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center successful El Paso, Texas. Senior members of President Joe Bidens medication are successful Mexico Tuesday for talks connected addressing amerciable migration to the U.S., according to the White House. National information advisor Jake Sullivan, Homeland Security caput Ali Mayorkas are starring the delegation to conscionable with elder Mexican authorities officials astir moving jointly to dilatory crossings on the U.S. confederate border. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON – Senior members of President Joe Biden's medication met with counterparts successful Mexico Tuesday for talks connected addressing amerciable migration to the U.S., according to the White House.

National information advisor Jake Sullivan and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas led the delegation to conscionable with elder Mexican authorities officials astir moving jointly to dilatory crossings on the U.S. confederate border. Officials besides discussed different economical and information issues arsenic good arsenic COVID-19 response.

Mexico's overseas affairs ministry said successful a connection aft the meetings that the 2 sides had analyzed caller migration flows and agreed to grow practice aimed astatine achieving orderly and harmless migration.

The sojourn came a time aft Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tapped by Biden to pb the administration's efforts to stem the “root causes” of migration from Central America, spoke with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reiterate that addressing the contented was a “top priority” for the administration.

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U.S. borderline authorities reported ample numbers of arrivals astatine the Mexican borderline successful June, with important increases successful radical arriving successful families and children traveling alone. The inclination appeared to proceed successful July, contempt soaring temperatures that often deter radical from coming.

Last week, the U.S. authorities began flying Central American migrants expelled from the U.S. heavy into Mexico to deter them from trying to scope the borderline again. Mexican officials were past deporting them.

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