Claudia Sheinbaum recognizes non-citizens who have been deported to Mexico from us | Donald Trump News

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that its country has received an estimated 4,094 people who have since been deported from the United States Donald Trump Names there.

That number includes citizens from other countries, although Sheinbaum specified that the majority was Mexican.

There has been no “substantial increase” in non-citizens who arrived in the country, she added.

Sheinbaum’s statement on Monday arrives at a delicate time for diplomacy in Latin -America, because the region is scrapping for changes under Trump’s second term as US president.

Trump had campaigned on the promise to lead a ‘mass deportation“Effort, and he has also promised to push an aggressive forward”America first“Platform for foreign policy.

During the weekend, those efforts came to a peak in a collision With the Colombian President Gustavo PetroAfter the left -wing leader initially refused to accept American deportees who were sent on military flights.

Colombia has long been a narrow ally of the US, especially in his worldwide “war against drugs”.

Nevertheless, Trump responded to Petro’s refusal threatening To increase rates against Colombia, first by 25 percent and later by 50 percent. His administration has also canceled visa agreements at the American embassy in Bogota, the capital of Colombia.

Petro indicated that he would take revenge with his own rates against the US. But on Sunday evening he had reverseso that the deportation flights can resume.

A return to ‘staying in Mexico’?

News reports in the US indicate that last week Mexico also refused access to an American military flight with deportees, although the circumstances that the aircraft thoroughly stamped remain unclear.

In the past, Sheinbaum and her administration have expressed disapproval of what they called ‘Unilateral deportations’ from the US.

In December, Sheinbaum also emphasized that her priority would be to receive Mexicans, no citizens from other countries.

“Our most important function is to receive Mexicans,” she said. “We hope to have an agreement with the Trump government in case deportations take place, so that they also send people who come from other countries back to their country of origin.”

But on Monday, Sheinbaum emphasized that there was a precedent for Mexico who accepted non-citizen portes from the US.

She pointed to her predecessor and political mentor, former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Under former US President Joe BidenLopez Obrador agreed to 30,000 Migrants and asylum seekers from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti per month.

And in 2019, during Trump’s first term, Lopez Obrador was committed to a policy known as “Stay in Mexico“For which asylum seekers had to stay in the country and at the same time make asylum claims on the American border.

Critics had described the policy as a violation of humanitarian law, so that asylum seekers can exceed the boundaries to escape the imminent prosecution.

They also pointed out that, according to the policy “in Mexico”, asylum seekers would be vulnerable to abuse of corrupt officials and cartels who work along the Mexican side of the border.

The policy was formally terminated in 2021, under Biden. But Trump wants to “stay in Mexico” during his second term. He was sworn on January 20.

Although Sheinbaum has not yet been publicly agreed with the proposal, she indicated on Monday that an agreement could be reached to keep non-citizens in Mexico.

“In the case of people who are not Mexican, there is also earlier coordination,” said Sheinbaum.

“The United States have also had smooth communication with other governments, especially in Central America.”

She added that Minister of Foreign Affairs Juan Ramon de la Fuente continued conversations with the Trump government “in particular about the issue of migration and the repatriation of Mexicans”.

Emphasis on ‘dialogue and respect’

On Monday, Sheinbaum also praised the solution of the American conflict with Colombia, which threatened to cause a regional trade war.

“We think it is good that an agreement has finally been reached between the Colombian government and the government of the United States,” she said. “Dialogue and respect must prevail.”

In the meantime, the Trump government has advertised his collision with Colombia as a sign of the power of its foreign policy.

“The government of Colombia has agreed to all the conditions of President Trump, including the unlimited acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia who have returned from the United States, also on American military planes,” said Karoline Leavitt Minister Van Pershuizen in a rack On Sunday.

“Today’s events have made it clear to the world that America is being reacted again.”

Confronted with last week’s news items that Mexico had also rejected a deportation flight, Leavitt responded with another rack Encourage the cooperation of Mexico.

“Thanks to President Trump: Yesterday Mexico accepted a record 4 deportation flights in 1 day!” Leavitt wrote.

But the deportation flights by the militarily guided will probably lead to continuous tensions in the region.

In a statement on Saturday, officials in Brazil have denounced the use of handcuffs on American deportation flights and called it a sign of the “blatant lack of respect” for human rights.

Trump too said The retaliation measures against Colombia “are just the start” of his plans to ensure that his deportation program continues.

Mexico now has one repatriation program ‘Mexico embraces’ to welcome his fellow citizens with open arms’, while deportations continue from the US.