The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumrevealed this Monday that his Government will contact the transition team of the future president of USA, donald trumpand that will “defend” Mexican migrants from that country.
Sheinbaum made this announcement hours after Trump reported the appointment of the next “border czar””, Tom Homanwho was director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Republican’s first presidency (2017-2021), when he established the policy of separating migrant families.
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“We will seek to contact the president’s transition team trump before he enters the Government. We will always defend the Mexicans who are on the other side of the border, who are also necessary for the economy of USA“, declared the president in her morning conference.
The designation of Homan causes concern among migrant advocates because, as interim head of ICE Between 2017 and 2018, he implemented the policy to separate children from their undocumented parents, and now he will manage the mass deportations that Trump has promised.
Given the warnings from Trump, who prioritized migration control on the border with Mexicothe Sheinbaum Government has defended that its strategy “humanitarian”, inherited by the former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), the flow in the common limit has decreased by 76% since December.
“We have data and we are going to give the information, but in any case it is important to get in touch, “Know what they are thinking and, to the extent possible, advance coordination.”Sheinbaum said now.
