New Delhi, April 5 -- The administration of US President Joe Biden announced on March 22 that senior White House officials would lead a diplomatic trip to Mexico and Guatemala on March 23-March 25 to discuss a coordinated response to the recent escalation of migrants along the southern US border. The representatives are likely to reiterate a US media campaign that has reached over 15 million people in Central America and Brazil since Biden took office on January 21, with the aim of discouraging people from visiting the US. Despite this, the US Border Patrol announced that in February 2021, its agents arrested 100,441 people at their southwest land border, a 28.1 percent rise from the 78,442 people apprehended in January 2021.

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