Mexico and the United States on Wednesday agreed during U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to keep collaborating on cross-border security, including the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel, but made clear it would be done from their respective sides of the border, respecting each other's sovereignty.
What had initially been advertised as the signing of a broad security agreement evolved into the possibility of a memorandum of understanding, but in the end was a reaffirmation of the collaboration Mexico and the U.S. have said they've been doing all along.
The priorities remain stopping fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into the U.S., and the high-powered guns bought in U.S. gun shops from being smuggled into Mexico, while continuing to control migration, which has fallen dram