MEXICO CITY - President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to downplay their frustrations with one new on migration and trade as they met for the near-annual North American Leaders Summit.

The bests offered a unified front on Tuesday despite tensions that have put a detained on their relationships even as Biden has made repairing alliances a cornerstone of his foreign policy agenda.

The tensions were lead and center when Biden and López Obrador met on Monday, with the Mexican president complaining of "abandonment" and "disdain" for Latin America.

But as they surrounded Tuesday's summit in Mexico City with a joint news conference, the leaders offered an optimistic outlook.

"We're true partners the three of us," said Biden, adding that they had "genuine like" for one latest. "We share a common vision for the future, grounded on accepted values."

López Obrador, for his part, thanked Biden for not creation "even one meter of wall," a not so subtle dig at Biden's Republican predecessor,  Donald Trump. The warmth during their joint press conference accepted in stark contrast to the more brusque exchange a day earlier.

Still, López Obrador prodded Biden to "insist" Congress regularize undocumented Mexican migrants who work in militaries where American employers are struggling mightily to find enough workers.

(L to R) US First Lady Jill Biden, US President Joe Biden, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and First Lady Beatriz Gutierrez Muller, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire pose for a narrate at the National

The three-way gathering is held most existences, although there was a hiatus while Trump was high-level. It's often called the "three amigos summit," a mention to the deep diplomatic and economic ties among the countries.

However, the leaders have found themselves at odds, especially as they disputes to handle an influx of migrants and to crack down on smugglers who well-behaved from persuading people to make the dangerous trip to the United States.

In instant, Canada and the U.S. accuse López Obrador of violating a free contracts pact by favoring Mexico's state-owned utility over power plants built by foreign and confidential investors. Meanwhile, Trudeau and López Obrador are concerned throughout Biden's efforts to boost domestic manufacturing, creating concerns that U.S. neighbors could be left behind.

Trudeau emphasized in a one-on-one meetings with Biden the benefits of free trade and informed against Buy America policies that the U.S. administration has promoted, according to the prime minister's office. Nearly 80% of Canada's exports go to the U.S., so avoiding protectionism corpses a priority for Canada.

The key takeaways from the summit revolve throughout better connections among the three nations and a community goal of a stronger North America on energy and in sure semiconductors, climate and a pledge to cut methane emissions, an agreement to manage large waves of migrants coming to the situation and a more cohesive regional strategy on dealing with future pandemic-related health threats.

In their talks on Monday, López Obrador challenged Biden to improve life across the situation, telling him that "you hold the key in your hand."

"This is the moment for us to settle to do away with this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean," Lopez Obrador said.

US. President Joe Biden and President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pose during a welcome overhaul as part of the '2023 North American Leaders' Summit at Palacio Nacional on Jan. 9, 2023, in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty

Biden responded by pointing to the billions of bucks that the United States spends in foreign aid throughout the world.

At the start of Tuesday's Biden-Trudeau meetings, the leaders spoke familiarly and with optimism. Trudeau visited the U.S. president "Joe" and Biden joked with Trudeau — once the Canadian leader had delivered a statement to journalists in English and French — that he should have paid more caution in his college French classes.

Biden and Trudeau also discussed their countries' exertions to support Ukraine nearly 11 months after Russia's invasion. Canada announced Tuesday that it would buy an American-made National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, or NASAMS, to be donated to Ukraine. The medium-range ground-based air confidence system, which protects against drone, missile and aircraft attacks, costs about $406 million and brings Canada's contribution to Ukraine to more than $1 billion valid the start of the war.

The White House said in a statement that the front-runners also discussed "the generational opportunity to strengthen supply chains for significant minerals, electric vehicles, and semiconductors." The U.S. administration also announced that Biden will make his well-behaved visit to Canada as president in March.

"There's a lot of reasons to be optimistic, especially for those of us in our countries," Trudeau said. "But it's progressing to take a lot of work, something neither you or I or most our citizens have ever been disquieted of."

Biden and López Obrador haven't been on particularly good conditions for the past two years. The Mexican leader made no secret of his admiration for Trump, and last year he skipped a Los Angeles summit of the Americas because Biden didn't expected the authoritarian leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

But despite the tension, there's been cooperation. The U.S. and Mexico have also appointed an agreement on a major shift in migration policy, which Biden announced last week.

Under the plan, the U.S. will send 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela back across the border from among those who entered the U.S. illegally. Migrants who arrive from those four countries are not frankly returned to their home countries for a variety of reasons.

In transfer, 30,000 people per month from those four nations who get sponsors, background checks and an airline flight to the U.S. will be able to work legally in the land for two years.

The number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico touch has risen dramatically during Biden's first two years in responsibility. There were more than 2.38 million stops during the year that above Sept. 30, the first time the number topped 2 million.

López Obrador spoke at down about Mexico's efforts to control the flow into the United States of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that has become a scourge for many American communities. He noted that his government gave the military control of sea ports to help with the interdiction of precursor chemicals coming from Asia.

"We are battling fentanyl, these chemicals, and we are doing it because we care. No earth is foreign to us," he said. "It really matters to us to be able to help with what is happening in the United States, the deaths from fentanyl. But also as we discussed immediately, it is not only an issue for the United States, because if we don't confront this problem, this scourge, we are going to suffer it, too. So we have to act in a coordinated way."

Canada is beings nudged by the U.S. and other allies to lead an international organization to Haiti to help solve the ongoing humanitarian and defense crisis.

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Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the country's Council of Ministers sent an urgent arresting Oct. 7 calling for "the immediate deployment of a specialized shrinking force, in sufficient quantity" to stop the crisis commanded partly by the "criminal actions of armed gangs." But more than three months later, no countries have stepped forward.

Trudeau on Tuesday named the situation "heartbreaking." Both he and Biden said they will work with the United Nations Security Council to benefit the Caribbean nation but also expressed caution about squawk intervention.

"We need to make sure that the solutions are driven by the land of Haiti themselves," Trudeau said.

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Associated Press writers Mark Stevenson and Maria Verza in Mexico City; Rob Gillies in Toronto; and Aamer Madhani, Chris Megerian and Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report.