Solution on migration from Haiti has to be led by U.S., Mexico, U.S. ambassador says
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1641016
Solution on migration from Haiti has to be led by U.S., Mexico, U.S. ambassador says
- Title: Solution on migration from Haiti has to be led by U.S., Mexico, U.S. ambassador says
- Date: 9th October 2021
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (OCTOBER 9, 2021) (REUTERS) ONGOING NEWS CONFERENCE VARIOUS OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO, KEN SALAZAR, DURING CONFERENCE U.S. EMBASSY IN MEXICO COAT OF ARMS ON PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO, KEN SALAZAR, SAYING: "Secretary Blinken is very committed to working and developing a regional solution and it has to be one that is led by both the United States and Mexico. So we will move forward and try to find solutions to some of this realities that we are facing." VARIOUS OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO, KEN SALAZAR, DURING CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO, KEN SALAZAR, SAYING: "It is a very significant issue for both countries, it's a significant issue for the Western Hemisphere. People who are fleeing their countries because of despair, the pandemic which has created a lot of the despair that we are seeing in different places, climate change and the refugees, people who having to flee because of hurricanes and other kinds of natural disasters."
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2021 21:36
- Keywords: Haiti Ken Salazar Mexico U.S. Ambassador immigration refugees
- Location: COCALES, ESCUINTLA, GUATEMALA / MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: COCALES, ESCUINTLA, GUATEMALA / MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Various
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001EYFR41Z
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A solution on a new wave of migration from Haiti has to be led by both the United States and Mexico, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said on Saturday (October 9).
"It is a very significant issue for both countries, it's a significant issue for the Western Hemisphere," he told a news conference.
Salazar's comments come a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on a visit following a period of strained cooperation.
The Biden administration is increasingly reliant on its southern neighbor to stem migration not only from Central America but also Haiti and Venezuela.
Guatemalan police said that on Friday (October 8) night 126 migrants, most of them Haitians, had been abandoned in a trailer.
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