Mexican Senate leader sees a meeting with US lawmakers as viable
Ignacio Mier, who runs the Senate's governing board, floated talks on the USMCA, security and migrants. No date, venue or attendees yet.
Senator Ignacio Mier Velazco, who chairs the Senate's Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), said on Oct. 17 that a meeting with members of the U.S. Congress would be viable, according to a statement from Mexico's Senate. Mier is the Senate leader of Morena, the governing party.
He proposed three topics: talks on the USMCA (the trade agreement known in Mexico as T-MEC), security and, as a priority, the treatment of migrants. In his view, parliamentary diplomacy can support foreign policy and Mexico's consulates in the United States.
Mier said the Senate is extending an invitation so the meeting can take place. The statement gives no date, venue or list of participants, and it does not say whether the U.S. side was consulted or agreed.
The precedent the Senate cites is a cross-party delegation of senators that traveled to Washington in May 2025 over a proposed tax on remittances. There they met the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Mier said that effort helped reduce the proposed tax considerably; the statement gives no figures, and this newsroom did not check his claim against the final U.S. law.
Mier had already proposed in July 2025 to resume these meetings, according to El Financiero, which also reported that the PRI and Movimiento Ciudadano stopped taking part in the second dialogue.
Mexico's executive branch negotiates the USMCA, so a meeting between lawmakers would be a parallel channel. For now it is a stated willingness, not a formal call. It remains to be seen whether Washington responds to the invitation and which parties would attend.
