Mexico rejects with anger ‘hostile’ Trump immigration rules as US talks loom

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Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. secretary of state in Washington, U.S. January 11, 2017.  REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. secretary of state in Washington, U.S. January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Source: AP)
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Source: AP)
Mexico reacted with anger on Wednesday to what one official called “hostile” new U.S. immigration guidelines as senior Trump administration envoys began arriving in Mexico City for talks on the volatile issue.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security unveiled plans on Tuesday to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, and will seek to send many of them to Mexico if they entered the United States from there, regardless of nationality.

The tension over the timing of the rules mirrors an outcry when President Donald Trump tweeted that Mexico should pay for his planned border wall shortly before Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was due at a Washington summit in January.

Trump, who took office last month, campaigned on a pledge to get tougher on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, playing on fears of violent crime while promising to build the wall and stop potential terrorists from entering the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed in Mexico City on Wednesday afternoon.

He was due to be joined by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly later for talks the White House said would “walk through” the implementation of Trump’s immigration orders.

Kelly signed the guidelines issued by his department on Monday.

Mexico’s lead negotiator with the Trump administration, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, said there was no way Mexico would accept the new rules, which among other things seek to deport non-Mexicans to Mexico.

“I want to say clearly and emphatically that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other,” he told reporters at the Foreign Ministry.

He said the issue would dominate the talks, taking place on Wednesday and Thursday. Mexico will insist that the United States proves the nationality of any person it wants to deport to Mexico, he said.

“We also have control of our borders and we will exercise it fully,” he said.

Roberto Campa, who heads the human rights department of the Interior Ministry, said the plan to deport non-Mexicans to Mexico was “hostile” and “unacceptable.”

‘Phenomenal’ relationship

White House spokesman Sean Spicer described U.S.-Mexico ties as healthy and robust and said he expected a “great discussion.”

“I think the relationship with Mexico is phenomenal right now,” Spicer told reporters.

Homeland Security’s guidance to immigration agents is part of a broader border security and immigration enforcement plan in executive orders that the Republican president signed on Jan. 25.

In Guatemala on Wednesday, Kelly told Guatemalans the immigration crackdown ordered by Trump meant undocumented immigrants would be caught and sent back quickly, advising them to stay at home.

He denied the administration was embarking on mass deportations.

Mexico’s agenda at the talks on Thursday includes border infrastructure, deportation strategies, Central American migration, narcotics, arms trafficking and terrorism, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, a senior official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

(REUTERS)

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7 responses to “Mexico rejects with anger ‘hostile’ Trump immigration rules as US talks loom”

  1. Better build better life in Mexico instead of blame US, let everyone want to live in Mexico

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    1. (GT) Convicted for the murder of an Italian was acquitted and released after he had been in prison for nearly 20 years. On Thursday, 23 February the newspaper writes La Stampa.

      According to him, it is a 55-year resident of the city Fraganyano, Province of Taranto, Angelo Massaro (Angelo Massaro). Earlier, the court found the city of Catanzaro, he is guilty of
      October 22, 1995 murder of Lorenzo Fersurelly (Lorenzo Fersurella), and
      sentenced him to 24 years in prison.

      The
      charges were based on the data obtained from wiretaps and informant
      information that alleged that Massaro on the participation in the crime
      he had been informed by third parties. It subsequently emerged that a speech has been misunderstood, in
      addition, the convict’s lawyer was able to prove that his client was in
      the night of the murder was in another place.

      As a result, the same court upheld the city Catanzaro a petition for appeal and ordered the release of Massaro. Now protect the Italian will evaluate the possibility to claim
      compensation from the Ministry of Justice for illegal deprivation of
      liberty.

      As stated by the exit of the prison itself Massaro, nothing can redeem
      transferred to them for 20 years of suffering, but it is intended to
      achieve justice and to have committed a mistake against him punished.

      During the years of the conclusion of the Italian he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Catanzaro

  5. We want to send our unwanted across the border , but how dare you send them back or reject them. You should be required to allow entry of those who entered into our country to illegally enter into your country.

    I mean Illegal means what it means. It means that they must be allowed.

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