EFE.- The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, proposed this Thursday that in January there be a meeting between the foreign ministers of Latin America to address the challenges of migration before the arrival of the next president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The Mexican leader revealed in her morning conference that on Monday she discussed the issue with her Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, pro tempore president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
Sheinbaum pointed out in the call “that it is important to continue the conference that took place in Palenque related to migration with various countries,” in reference to the regional summit hosted in October 2023 by the then Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018 -2024).
“So, we proposed the idea that in January the foreign ministers of various countries could meet to talk about the issue of migration and how we cooperate between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to address migration from the perspective of the causes,” he said. .
The president, who has promised to be ready to receive the Mexicans, reiterated last week “the insistence to the United States that repatriation be done to the different countries of origin,” instead of expelling them all to Mexico, which is already in dialogue with other nations so that they directly receive their deportees.
But he also defended now that his policy includes international cooperation to address the causes of migration.
“The opposition and adversaries say ‘how is it possible for Mexico to help Central America or other countries.’ It will always be our vision that, to the extent possible, we also help whoever requires it, that is Mexico’s foreign policy and we are going to defend it,” he commented.
The massive deportations promised by Trump are of concern in the country because nearly half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are Mexican and almost 4% of Mexico’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is represented by their remittances, which in 2024 would have reached an estimated record of $65 billion.
Even so, Sheinbaum insisted that “there will be a good relationship with President Trump” and that his Government will do “whatever is in its power to be able to have that good relationship.”
“President López Obrador had a good relationship with President Trump and we do not see why we cannot have a good, cooperative relationship,” he noted.
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