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This week, the Trump administration detailed new immigration plans that
would expand the pool of immigrants eligible for deportation and offer more
resources to agencies in charge of the crackdown.
The new plans would also see the US deport immigrants to the country from
which they arrived, regardless of their country of origin.
This has drawn the ire of Mexican officials, who have worked closely with
the US government in recent years to intercept migrants flowing through the
country toward the US-Mexico border.
Luis Videgaray, the Mexican foreign minister, said on Wednesday that his
government "will not accept" the US's new, "unilateral" immigration
proposals.
The statement came hours before Videgaray was scheduled to meet with US
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US Secretary of Homeland Security John
Kelly. Videgaray said the new proposals would be the main point of
discussion during their meetings on Wednesday and Thursday.
Tillerson and Kelly are in Mexico to meet with high-level Mexican officials,
including President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Videgaray also said the Mexican government wouldn't hesitate to go to the UN
"to defend the rights of immigrants," Reuters reported.
The Trump administration has sparred with the Mexican government over
immigration since the US president took office in late January.
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(Central American migrants resting next to the train tracks at Arriaga, in
the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, while waiting for the freight train "
La Bestia," or the Beast, to travel to the US border.REUTERS/Jorge Luis
Plata)
The two countries have long cooperated on immigration issues, with Mexico
acting — with US assistance — to pick up migrants from Central America and
other countries who pass through southern Mexico on their way to the US's
southern border, where many intend to claim asylum.
This initiative has earned the Mexican government criticism for the amount
of resources it requires as well as over apparent violations of its
obligations as a signatory to an international convention on the rights of
migrants and refugees.
The Mexican government has said it could rescind its cooperation on
immigration and other programs should relations with the US continue to
deteriorate.
"We have been a great ally to fight problems with migration, narcotics,"
Mexico's economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, told The Globe and Mail this
month. "If at some point in time things become so badly managed in the
relationship, the incentives for the Mexican people to keep on cooperating
in things that are at the heart of [US] national-security issues will be
diminished." |
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