In the first week of government of Donald Trump 4094 people have been deported through Mexico, most Mexicans, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported Monday at her traditional press conference known as Mañanera.
The figure, according to the president, is similar to deportations with previous administrations.
“Until now there has been a substantive increase in cases since Trump came to power a week ago,” said the head of government. “It is a number that the country has had on other occasions,” he said.
He also stressed that both authorities have been in “permanent dialogue” and in turn, Washington with Central American countries. “It is not that we have a fully defined coordination, but we are in dialogue. That is very important, ”he said.
This Monday, the executive leader insisted that there is a dialogue with the Trump administration, in particular in migratory matters, and it will be proposed that other issues are added, He noticed The Mexican newspaper The day.
Sheinbaum said that Mexico and the United States are obliged to have a good relationship, based on the defense of sovereignty and “always looking for coordination, mutual respect and dialogue between our nations.”
Mexico maintains communication and works with the United States government. Dialogue and respect for sovereignty must prevail. pic.twitter.com/rkj13nx0w3
– Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@claudiashein) January 28, 2025
Intergovernmental contacts
According to the president, there have been several Telerreunions between the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP), and the National Institute of Migration, in addition to the Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Undersecretariat of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior.
“In these there are agreements or conciliations,” he said.
In addition, the foreign ministers, Marco Rubio and Juan Ramón de la Fuente, established a working group for migratory issues, with the perspective of extending it to a broader thematic spectrum.
The day after Trump’s sworn, the new US administration restored the “Stay in Mexico” program, for which asylum requesting migrants are sent to Mexican territory to wait for their appointment, a decision that was disapproved by Sheinbaum.
In the last week four civil flights arrived in Mexico from the Northern Nation in coordination with the Trump government, but a Washington request was rejected to allow an American military plane to land in Mexican territory with deported migrants.
Urgent meeting at CELAC
On the other hand, Sheinbaum described as “good” that Colombia and the United States have reached an agreement, after Trump’s threats to the South American nation to impose tariffs and sanctions on high -level officials if he did not accept to receive deportened migrants.
Petro will personally go to a presidential summit Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on Trump’s anti -immigration measures that will be held this week in Honduras.
Several countries, including Brazil and Colombia, have expressed their disagreement with the deportation mechanism implemented by Trump, who hours after his swear, a week ago, declared a national emergency on the southern border.
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Migrants are transported in military aircraft, handcuffed and treated as if they were criminals, denounced the Honduran Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Torres, as they have referred to Latin American authorities and media.
For their part, American military aircraft made two similar flights last Friday, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala, whose chancellor, Carlos Ramiro Martínez, recalled on Monday that his country has received return flights for years for years and does not rule out receiving “Many” more onwards. In fact, on that own day One more arrived.
Situation in Tapachula and New Caravan
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants saturated on Monday the offices of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (region) on the southern border of Mexico, reported The Spanish Agency EFE.
Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, Cuba and countries in Central America, are agglomerate from the weekend in front of the region in Tapachula, the largest city in the Mexican southern border, where the government agency serves about a hundred people to diary.
Migrants expressed a EFE that now they seek to stay in Mexico before Trump’s measures, such as mass deportations, deployment of thousands of military on the border and the CBP One application elimination from the Office of Customs and Border Protection, which allowed to request asylum from Mexican territory.
The Mexican government has promised humanitarian assistance for migrants from other countries, but has warned that it will deny asylum to those who only want the process to move towards the United States.
In that context, a new caravan of more than a thousand migrants departed this weekend in southern Mexico towards the north, despite the war without barracks against irregular immigration declared by the Trump government.
