Mexican President-Elect Peña Nieto to Meet With President Obama
Mexican President-Elect Peña Nieto to Meet With President Obama
AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth comments on Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto’s first meeting with government officials in Washington to tackle immigration reform, economic partnerships, and security issues.
Four days before taking the oath of office, Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto plans to meet with President Barack Obama and will likely discuss immigration reform.
The president and Vice President Joe Biden plan to discuss with Peña Nieto a broad range of bilateral, regional and global issues during their meeting in the Oval Office. But almost certainly immigration will come up.
For Peña Nieto, raising the issue would be “pushing on an open door, because he’ll find a very receptive President Obama,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, a New York-based business organization, told Bloomberg Businessweek . There’s going to be a very vigorous agreement on this issue.”
Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in June, which allows applicants under 30 who arrived in the US before they turned 16 to avoid deportation if they meet a certain criteria.
Still unclear is whether the two presidents will talk pot.
México has made it clear it is unhappy with the recent legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states. Mexican President Felipe Calderón said recently that the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado represented a fundamental change that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere….
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