Biden to meet Mexican president as surge of illegal drugs and immigrants continue to cross border

Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is set to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House, Tuesday. Experts say that Biden needs to push AMLO on illegal immigration and the massive increase in illegal drugs crossing the border.

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The Mexican president has been quoted as saying that he is not going to prosecute or convict criminals and drug cartel leaders given human rights considerations. A policy known as "hugs not bullets."

"The most important issues on the AMLO – Biden meeting will be drugs, migration, energy and inflation. The last issue is of most immediate concern to both governments, but they may be limited in what they can do in the short term…I expect that the U.S. will commit to doing more on weapons flowing to Mexico and Mexico will commit to being tougher on synthetic drugs," said Duncan Wood a senior advisor to the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.