MEXICO CITY: A regional migration and drug smuggling crisis is expected to dominate talks between United States President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday. Biden arrived in Mexico City on Sunday night after a politically charged stop at the southern US border, his first since taking office in January 2021. He was set to meet with Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau one-on-one on Monday and Tuesday, and also together in what is dubbed the "Three Amigos" summit. In his meetings with Lopez Obrador and Trudeau, Biden will address the regional scope of the issue. Mexico is plagued by cartel-related bloodshed that has seen more than 340,000 people murdered since the government deployed the military in the war on drugs in 2006.
