MEXICO CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican immigration officials are set to meet in El Paso on Saturday, the day before U.S. President Joe Biden’s first visit to the border since his position, the immigration institute of Mexico said on Friday.
The meeting between the head of Mexican immigration Francisco Garduno and officials of the Border Patrol in the city of the border of Texas aims to “coordinate actions to prevent that migrants are exposed to risks”, the institute said in a statement.
Biden’s visit to El Paso on Sunday comes ahead of his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week in Mexico, where immigration will be on the agenda.
Mexico’s immigration institute said a cold front is expected to drop temperatures in the area along the border and 200 Mexican immigration agents have been deployed to provide humanitarian aid such as shelters, blankets and hot drinks.
On Thursday, the United States announced it was expanding restrictions to quickly deport Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally across the border.
Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore
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