Opposition candidate to address migration, US-Mexico water crisis [Video]

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A leading Mexican presidential candidate is coming to Juarez, Mexico, for a campaign rally on Saturday. Xochitl Galvez will be visiting Chihuahua City and the regional ranching and agricultural bastion of Camargo after that, her campaign confirmed.

The visit comes days after a televised debate between Galvez, the candidate of the three-party FAM coalition, Jorge Alvarez of Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), and ruling party coalition standard-bearer Claudia Sheinbaum. The June 2 election is likely to produce Mexico’s first female president as MC received under 2% of the vote in the last presidential election and current polls show Alvarez in single digits.

The winner will have to work with the United States in addressing a years-long migration crisis and increasing flows of the deadly drug fentanyl that has figured in many of the 110,000-plus annual overdose deaths in the U.S.

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