• Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with US counterpart Joe Biden in Washington on July 12.
• At least 22 Mexicans were among the 50 people killed in and around a trailer truck found abandoned in Texas.
• Thousands of undocumented migrants cross Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala every year to reach the United States.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Tuesday that he will meet with US counterpart Joe Biden in Washington on July 12, with migration high on the agenda following another people-smuggling tragedy.

Lopez Obrador said at least 22 Mexicans were among the 50 people killed in and around a trailer truck found abandoned in Texas on Monday in sweltering heat.

He said migration was a “central” issue that he would discuss with Biden, describing the disaster — one of the worst of its kind in the United States in recent years — as a “tremendous misfortune.”

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Lopez Obrador called for steps to regularize the status of migrants and for agreements with the United States and Canada on temporary work visas.

Mexico’s president refused to join Biden and other regional leaders at the Summit of the Americas earlier in June in Los Angeles because the United States did not invite the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Despite the snub, Lopez Obrador said he had “good” relations with Biden and was optimistic about the upcoming two-way talks.

Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants, mostly Central Americans, cross Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala on their way to the United States to escape poverty and violence.

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