Predictions
- Moves to limit US security agencies’ operations in Mexico will hamper cooperation against crime but cross-borders relations will improve over next year
- Biden and AMLO will reach agreement on various issues including migration, trade and labour standards
- Main points of friction between Biden and Mexico likely to be cross border security and institutional corruption
Event
The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, approved amendments to the National Security Law limiting the role of foreign law enforcement agents inside Mexico on 15 December. The changes, which were already approved by the Senate, the upper house, establish that foreign agents must share any intelligence with the Mexican authorities, cannot bear arms without prior authorisation, cannot conduct arrests, will not have immunity from prosecution, and can be expelled from the country if they fail to follow these rules.
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