Mexican President Sheinbaum relents, now ready to receive Mexican nationals deported by Trump

12/23/2024 / By Arsenio Toledo

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced her government’s new willingness to accept Mexican nationals deported by President-elect Donald Trump.
The Mexican government is committed to working with internal authorities to manage deportations and has emphasized the responsibility it has to the welfare of its citizens.
Mexico continues to refuse to be a “safe third country” for deportees from other nations.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry is preparing to strengthen consular support and legal aid for Mexicans facing deportation.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that her government is prepared to accept Mexican nationals deported from the United States by President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies.

This decision comes as Trump plans to initiate one of the largest immigration enforcement operations in U.S. history, reminiscent of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1954 campaign.

In a statement released by the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) on Thursday, Dec. 19, the Sheinbaum government affirmed its commitment to work with federal, state and local authorities to manage potential mass deportations. The statement emphasized the Mexican State’s “responsibility and obligation” to its citizens, ensuring they would be received “in the manner they deserve” during these challenges.

The announcement follows Trump’s threats to impose economically crippling tariffs on all imports from Mexico, starting with a tariff of 25 percent, unless the country halts the flow of drugs, particularly fentanyl and illegal immigrants into the United States.

In recent weeks, Sheinbaum has engaged in multiple discussions with Trump, reportedly pledging to halt illegal immigrant caravans from Central and South America as they attempt to cross Mexico toward the U.S. border.

Mexico aims to demonstrate progress in stopping migrant caravans and reducing border crossings, as well as increasing fentanyl seizures, in hopes of mitigating Trump’s tariff threats. (Related: THANK YOU, TRUMP: Amid U.S. pressure, Mexican officials dissolved 2 migrant caravans headed for the southern border.)

Mexico still refusing to accept deported migrants from other nations

While Sheinbaum has relented, the SRE has clarified that it will only receive its own nationals and will not act as a “safe third country” for migrants from other nations.

This position mirrors Mexico’s stance during Trump’s first term when then-President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected an agreement requiring Central American migrants to file asylum claims in Mexico rather than the United States.

Trump’s transition team has been in contact with the governments of Mexico and El Salvador through informal channels to discuss the potential repatriation of millions of illegal immigrants. Detailed conversations have taken place, sometimes involving business representatives, to establish broad understandings that would allow for immediate deportation efforts after Trump’s inauguration.

Meanwhile, Mexico is preparing for the possibility of being forced to receive thousands of migrants through Trump’s mass deportations. Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente, a close ally of Sheinbaum, has traveled to the U.S. multiple times in recent weeks to fill vacant positions in Mexico’s 22 consulates-general and 31 consulates in the country.

De la Fuente has also been working with Sheinbaum to develop a strategy for providing legal and consular support for Mexican citizens who may face deportation. De la Fuente is working on a legal defense strategy for Mexicans in the U.S., as well as streamlining procedures and digitizing documents that may be required in the event of deportations.

Watch this video discussing Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Mexico if it refuses to cooperate with his mass deportation plans.

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