US, Mexico vow to do more to curb migration, drug flows

The United States and Mexico pledged to step up efforts to tackle flows of drugs and migrants, setting aside signs of friction over a US plan to extend a controversial border wall.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the announcement by Washington that it would add to the barrier that was a signature policy of Donald Trump, calling it a "setback." More than 8,200 migrants have died or disappeared in the Americas since 2014, most of them while trying to reach the United States via Mexico.