Overview

• President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, discussing issues including migration, fentanyl trafficking, and bilateral commerce.
• Biden and López Obrador pledged to work together to combat fentanyl trafficking into the U.S., a major issue as Mexico and China are the primary sources for synthetic fentanyl trafficked into the U.S.
• The two leaders also discussed the rising number of migrants traveling north to the U.S.-Mexico border, with López Obrador praising Biden's policies as a 'humane way to address the migration phenomenon.'
• López Obrador thanked Biden for his administration’s work on migration and emphasized the need for further progress to address the migratory phenomenon.
• The meeting comes two weeks after it was reported that the Biden administration approved $950 million in contracts to repair and upgrade part of existing border wall construction in Arizona, California and Texas.