Top US officials will soon visit Mexico to discuss immigration between the two countries, the White House said on Friday after a phone call between President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, AFP reported.

The two leaders discussed on Thursday their actions to “manage unprecedented migration flows” in the Americas, at a time when local US governments in Texas and Arizona took unprecedented action at the border themselves instead of the federal government, whose inaction she criticizes.

“President Biden has asked Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall to travel to Mexico City in the coming days to meet with President López Obrador and his team to discuss steps that can be taken. brought together to address today’s challenges at the border,” said White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

He spoke of a “massive increase” in migration at the border.

In recent weeks, border police reported about 10,000 crossings every day and already more than 2.8 million interceptions of migrants on land in 2023, more than in the entire previous year, a new record.

During the phone call, the two presidents “shared concerns about the increase in migration flows in recent weeks” and discussed “what can be done in Mexico to slow this process,” Kirby added.

The delegation also arrived as lawmakers debated an immigration deal in Washington, a condition required by Republicans to agree to a new financial package to help Ukraine in its war against Russia.