Leaders from the US, Mexico and Canada sought to set aside simmering tensions over drugs, trade and energy to focus on boosting investment in producing semiconductors and quelling a migration crisis that has caused political headaches for Joe Biden.
For Biden, the US’s southern border has been at the top of the agenda for the two-day summit in Mexico City with Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
The US president has faced intensifying criticism from Republicans about waves of migrants from across the region. Last week he said he would increase expulsions and expand a scheme to encourage legal entry for certain citizens, and made his first trip as president to the border.