Former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico: 'We urge these senior leaders to de-link trade and immigration and find ways ahead to address the real problems around Central American migration. Otherwise, we face lose-lose outcomes.'
Seven former U.S. ambassadors to MexicoAs former U.S. Ambassadors to Mexico, we urge these senior leaders to de-link trade and immigration and find ways ahead to address the real problems around Central American migration.
Flags are seen after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso made statements after a meeting at the State Department May 7, 2018 in Washington, DC.U.S. and Mexican cabinet ministers are conducting intense negotiations this week to craft solutions on handling Central American migrant flows. They seek to forgo a dangerous path of ratcheting up U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports that would dearly cost both countries.
Amid the deepening trade battle with China, the United States and Mexico need each other — to trade, to manage the flow of Central Americans fleeing violence in their homelands, and to work against cross border-crime.We former U.S. Ambassadors have worked to transform Mexico and the United States from "distant neighbors," as they were called in the 1980s, to partners.
Fourth, a battle over trade and migration will undermine the trust needed to forge an improved partnership against cross-border crime. That crime fuels record drug overdoses in the U.S. and widespread violence in Mexico. Progress will be more difficult if the U.S. is perceived to harm Mexican jobs with tariffs.
Today's migrant numbers require new strategies and more funds and staff on both sides of the border, including U.S. personnel to adjudicate asylum claims. Mexico's government must resolve how to protect the human rights of migrants, as it has committed to do, in a situation where Mexico's immigration and refugee agencies lack sufficient capacity, staff or funds.
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