Biden challenged by Mexico President on his 'forgetfulness' during North American Leaders Summit - Fox News

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador challenged President Biden connected his "forgetfulness" to assistance Latin American countries during the North American Leaders Summit Monday. He besides encouraged him to prioritize fixing the migration situation affecting the U.S.-Mexico border.

While nationalist comments mostly struck a affirmative tone, López Obrador pressed Biden implicit his "abandonment" and "forgetfulness" to assistance Central American countries.

"This is the infinitesimal for america to find to bash distant with this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean," Lopez Obrador said during a property league Monday.

López Obrador besides said Biden had the "key" to improving beingness for the region.

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a connection for the media arsenic portion of the '2023 North American Leaders' Summit astatine Palacio Nacional connected January 10, 2023 successful Mexico City, Mexico.  (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

"You clasp the cardinal successful your hand," the Mexican person said of the U.S. president.

By Tuesday, López Obrador’s comments were much affirmative arsenic helium commended Biden for not gathering "even 1 metre of wall," a wide notation to Biden's predecessor, erstwhile President Donald Trump. 

Still, López Obrador urged Biden to "insist" Congress marque much accommodations to let undocumented Mexican migrants to enactment successful industries wherever American employers are struggling to hire.

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US President Joe Biden shakes hands with his Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a invited ceremonial astatine Palacio Nacional (National Palace) successful Mexico City, connected January 9, 2023.  (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau astatine the 10th North American Leaders' Summit astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.  (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mexico’s president besides spoke astatine magnitude astir his country’s efforts to assistance bounds the flow of fentanyl into the U.S . Fentanyl is simply a synthetic opioid that has go the main operator of cause overdose deaths successful America. 

"We are battling fentanyl, these chemicals, and we are doing it due to the fact that we care. No quality is overseas to us," helium said. "It truly matters to america to beryllium capable to assistance with what is happening successful the United States, the deaths from fentanyl. But besides arsenic we discussed today, it is not lone an contented for the United States, due to the fact that if we don’t face this problem, this scourge, we are going to endure it, too. So we person to enactment successful a coordinated way."

Biden, López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Monday and Tuesday for the North American Leaders Summit, wherever the 3 satellite leaders shared their joined goals for planetary trade, managing ample waves of migrants coming into the region, and supporting Ukraine.

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They besides discussed handling vigor issues and semiconductors production, reducing clime alteration impacts — pledging to chopped methane emissions — and, forming a much cohesive determination strategy for dealing with aboriginal pandemic-related wellness threats.

"We’re existent partners the 3 of us," Biden said Tuesday astatine a associated quality league successful Mexico City. He besides said they each shared a "genuine like" for 1 another. 

"We stock a communal imaginativeness for the future, grounded connected communal values," Biden added.

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clasp during a quality league astatine the 10th North American Leaders' Summit astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.  (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 2nd from left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau airs for an authoritative photograph astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.  (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Despite the praise, the leaders person recovered themselves astatine likelihood this past year.

The U.S. is urging Trudeau and Canada to assistance pb an planetary ngo to Haiti to assistance lick an ongoing humanitarian and information crisis

"We request to marque definite that the solutions are driven by the radical of Haiti themselves," Trudeau said connected Tuesday, calling the concern "heartbreaking."

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Also, the U.S. and Mexico proceed to strategize connected however champion to woody with an influx of migrants who are seeking entree to America. 

Many of these migrants — mostly from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela — person been forced to hold astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline arsenic Title 42, a Trump-era migration policy, is acceptable to expire. 

While the Biden medication continues to assertion the borderline is "secure," the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported determination were much than 2.3 cardinal migrant encounters successful FY 2022 alone. 

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This fig tops the then-historic 1.7 cardinal encountered successful FY 2021. So acold successful FY 2023, which began successful October, migrant encounters are outpacing the aforesaid play past year.

Fox News' Adam Sabes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.