Rio de Janeiro: Secretary of the United States of America, Antony Blinken spoke with his partner Brazil Carlos Franca to discuss regional migration “unprecedented” and ways to collaborate to slow down the amount of northern migrants, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.
Calls between diplomatic high-ranking officials of the two largest economies in America came as a record of the number of Brazilians arriving at the South AS border, part of the waves of people from Latin America escaped from Pandemic Covid-19.
The concern of the southern border has jumped to their highest level in 20 years in recent months, causing political headaches and logistics for US President Joe Biden.
In calls, Blinken and Franca discussed “irregular migration movements that have been unprecedented in all parts of the earth”, and how the two countries can work together “to stop uncontrolled immigrant migrant flows in the region”, according to a spokesman Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Diplomatic efforts are underway to slow down the arrival of Brazil.
Mexico is scheduled to impose visa requirements for Brazilian visitors, according to documents from the Ministry of Home Affairs Mexico.
Mexico does not require a visa for Brazil since 2004, providing road migrants that are easier to enter the country and proceed to the north.
Reuters reported last week that Washington had, since July, asked Mexico to impose visa requirements in Brazil.
During the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2021, 46,280 Brazilians were arrested at the Border Data show, Customs and Border Shopping (CBP), compared to 17,893 for all 2019.
Blinken also praised “vulnerable leadership from migrant vulnerable populations, including Haiti and Venezuela “.
Last month, Reuters reported that international organizations for migration had asked Brazil to receive several Haitian migrants camping along the As-Mexican border.