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President Biden is set to discuss migration among other topics with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at Monday’s summit held just days after the son of “El Chapo” was arrested in a bloody operation that reportedly sparked protests across the Sinaloa state.
The timing of the raid on Ovidio Guzman, wanted by U.S. authorities for years for allegedly contributing the surge of fentanyl flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border, was viewed by some former and current American counternarcotics officers as coinciding with Biden’s planned trip to Mexico City.
Mexican officials denied the operation’s intent was political in nature to present the country as a more collaborative partner working with the United States and Canada toward North American global clout. Biden flew to Mexico after a short trip to El Paso, Texas, Sunday — his first southern border visit as president despite the number of illegal migrant crossings surging dramatically in the last two years.
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