( Spanish) – The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, reiterated this Tuesday that the country is preparing for an eventual mass deportation if the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, decides so.
“We are also preparing for it. Welcoming to Mexico all the Mexicans who for some reason are deported from the US is our obligation, to the Mexican men and women, so we are also working on it in case there is a mass deportation, but “The first attention should be at the Mexican consulates.”
“We are doing a program to hire more lawyers to serve our brothers there,” Sheinbaum said in his morning press conference.
However, he assured that his government will defend “a humanitarian strategy” and recalled that his predecessor and mentor, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on the two occasions he visited Washington during his mandate, that Trump “has respected the sovereignty of Mexico.” ”.
Sheinbaum and Trump had a phone call on November 27.
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The president shared that day that she had maintained “an excellent conversation” with Trump in which he had shared that “caravans are not arriving on the northern border because they are being attended to in Mexico.”
The US president-elect stated that the president had agreed to stop migration through Mexico, “effectively closing the southern border.” according to a publication spread on the Truth Social network.
Sheinbaum clarified after that publication that “Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”
consulted the Trump transition team about this statement from the president of Mexico, and received an email with the president-elect’s previous publication in which he reiterates Sheinbaum’s alleged commitment to closing the border between the two countries.
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