The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaumhe promised this Tuesday “defend Mexico above all else” after the decrees on migration, trade and drug trafficking which the new president signed USA, donald trumpbut asked to “be calm.”
“It is important to be calm and read the decrees as such to be able to make an interpretation and let them know that the President of the Republic will always defend Mexico above all else,” declared the Mexican leader in her morning conference.
The president requested analyze Trump’s executive orders with a “cool head”who on his first day in office declared a national emergency on the southern border of the United Statesordered to designate as terrorists to the mexican cartels and asked reinstate the ‘Stay in Mexico’ immigration program.
“About the decrees, because it is important to refer to the decrees that President Donald Trump signed yesterday, I would like to mention the following, first that the people of Mexico are certain that We will always defend sovereignty and our independencethat is a maximum principle that the president has to comply with,” he remarked.
Will return affected migrants to their countries
The head of the Executive argued that “the emergency zone decree for the southern border (of the United States) that she signed yesterday is very similar, practically the same as the decree that he signed in his first term, in 2019”.
He also rejected that Mexico becomes a “safe third country” with the return of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) or ‘Stay in Mexico’, recalling that Trump implemented this program in his first administration, in January 2019. that forces US asylum seekers to wait in Mexican territory.
And he insisted that his Government is prepared to receive possible repatriates due to mass deportations from the United Stateswhere Mexicans represent almost half of the nearly eleven million undocumented immigrants in the country.
“We will always support the Mexicans who are in the United States, our compatriots, our countrymen, these two principles are fundamental and elemental for a president of the Republic,” he stressed.
The president also promised “humanitarian care” to migrants from other nations, particularly from Latin Americathat they are in Mexico and that they can no longer cross into the United States, but he insisted that the new Trump Government must directly deport undocumented immigrants to their places of originand not to Mexican territory.
“We would look for mechanisms through migration policy and foreign policy to return to their countries of origin, for example, there is agreement with Guatemalawith practically all the Central American countries, in fact there was a meeting last Friday for this, there is agreement with Cuba“.
Fight against drug trafficking
Given the designation of the Mexican cartels of drug trafficking as terrorists, the president argued that The United States “can act” within its territorybut stressed that she will defend the “sovereignty of Mexico.”
“We act within the framework of our Constitution and our laws, which we swore to defend when I swore to be president of the Republic,” she stated.
The measure has raised concern in Mexico about the possible intervention of US troopsand Trump has suggested bombing Mexican territory. Sheinbaum, for his part, asked to wait to see the true implications.
“We are going to wait, that is why I say that the chancellor (Juan Ramón de la Fuente) is going to contact the Secretary of State of the United States (Marco Rubio), but what “We are looking for coordination and cooperation so that a situation like this does not arise.”he pointed out.
Trump has accused Mexico of “being ruled by cartels” and to be a place “very insecure”in addition to threatening 25% tariffs starting February 1 if the Mexican Government does not stop the “invasion” of migrants and drugsin particular the fentanyl.