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Joe Biden did not discuss the southern border at his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador during their summit in Mexico this week, with claims that there was 'no time' to discuss the historic crisis.
The topic of the southern border was kept off the agenda at the Three Amigos Summit in Mexico City, Mexico on Monday and Tuesday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
It appears that because a private conversation between Biden and López Obrador went long, the following official meeting left the group with less time than expected to discuss the issue of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The pre-meeting talk apparently touched on migration and the border, but it's not clear in how much detail they spoke on the matter.
The official meeting appeared to focus mostly on drug smuggling and supply chain issues.
Sources familiar with President Joe Biden's official meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week say that the two leaders and their respective cabinets did not discuss the southern border crisis because they ran out of time
The trip to Mexico for the 'Three Amigos Summit' followed Biden's first-ever trip to the southern border following two years of pressure from Republicans
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has repeatedly slammed Republicans for exacerbating the crisis at the southern border.
Biden is 'trying to fix' the border crisis, she said to questions over his solutions following his trip to the border on Sunday and subsequent meetings with Canadian and Mexican leaders.
'As it relates to migration, irregular migration, obviously that was a key topic of discussion,' Jean-Pierre insisted in her Wednesday press conference. 'President Biden discussed ways our countries can continue to work together and to address irregular migration. So that conversation certainly happened, extensively.'
The president's official meeting with López Obrador, known colloquially as AMLO, included more than two dozen of their top aides, including Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Security
