MEXICO CITY: Latin American leaders holding a summit called Sunday on the United States to change the way it deals with the flood of illegal migration heading to its border.
For Washington, this is a red hot issue with political fallout on the scale of the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.Without explicitly naming the US, the presidents of Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and other leaders of the region called on destination countries to end 'inconsistent and selective policies' such as granting entry to certain nationalities but not others.
September alone saw 60,000 migrants arrive in Mexico from Venezuela, along with 35,000 Guatemalans and 27,000 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government.For the summit President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador welcomed his counterparts Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, Miguel Diaz-Canel of Cuba, and Gustavo Petro of Colombia, among others including several foreign ministers.
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