EFE.- The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, asked this Friday “not to associate migrants with violence” in the face of the expected increase in migration in the country due to mass deportations and the restrictions that the future president of the United States, Donald Trump, will implement.
“There is no need to associate, because otherwise our language is similar to others, migrants with violence, because we are a supportive, generous people, and people, 99% or more of people, migrate out of necessity,” declared the president. in his morning conference.
The Mexican leader responded to questions from the press about concerns in border cities, such as Ciudad Juárez, about the effect that the massive arrival of migrants deported by the United States or who remain stuck after Trump’s inauguration would have on citizen security. January 20.
But Sheinbaum rejected “this idea that migration brings violence.”
“We will need to generate a condition of different vision, migrants migrate out of necessity and seek the best possible life for their families, which cannot be given in their places of origin,” he argued.
The country is concerned about the massive deportations promised by Trump because Mexicans are close to half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and their remittances represent almost 4% of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), which this year would receive a estimated record of $65 billion.
Furthermore, although the daily encounter of undocumented immigrants at the United States border fell by 75% in 2024, the Government of Mexico detected a record of more than 925,000 irregular migrants from January to August, a year-on-year increase of almost 132%.
The president reiterated her skepticism about mass deportations occurring, but asserted that her Government is ready to receive returned Mexicans and that it seeks to ensure that each Latin American country welcomes its citizens.
“We are not in favor of these deportations, but if they happen, because not everything depends on what we decide, we are going to receive the Mexicans who arrive in our country and we are going to request that the United States, in the As much as possible, migrants who are not from Mexico can be taken to their countries,” he said.
The president recalled that she will seek to meet with Trump’s team after she returns to the White House.
“There will be a time to talk to the United States Government, if these deportations really occur, but here we are going to receive them, we are going to receive them well and we have a plan that I said yesterday at the time that we are going to present,” he remarked.
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