14 Mexicans are being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

The detention of Mexicans astatine the “Alligator Alcatraz” situation successful the U.S. authorities of Florida and a simplification successful the robbery of freight trucks were among the issues discussed astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s July 22 mañanera.

Sheinbaum: Mexicans detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz should beryllium ‘immediately’ repatriated 

A newsman noted that Human Rights Watch (HRW) published testimonies of radical who person been detained astatine migration detention centers successful the United States.

Along with the organizations Americans for Immigrant Justice and Sanctuary of the South, HRW published a 92-page study connected Monday entitled “‘You Feel Like Your Life Is Over’: Abusive Practices astatine Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025.”

The study “documents that radical detained astatine Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome), Broward Transitional Center (BTC), and the Federal Detention Center (FDC) successful Miami person been held successful overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, subjected to degrading treatment, and person not been fixed entree to punctual and capable aesculapian care,” HRW said.

Sheinbaum didn’t remark connected the report, but highlighted that her authorities sent a diplomatic enactment to its U.S. counterpart erstwhile it announced successful aboriginal 2025 that it would nonstop migrants to the U.S. subject basal astatine Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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She said earlier this twelvemonth that her authorities told the Trump medication successful the enactment that “no Mexican should beryllium sent anyplace but Mexico.”

On Tuesday, the president said that her authorities sent different diplomatic enactment to its U.S. counterpart erstwhile it announced past period that it would detain undocumented immigrants astatine a installation successful the Florida Everglades called “Alligator Alcatraz” owed to the beingness of the reptiles successful the surrounding marshland.

Sheinbaum said that successful the 2nd note, her authorities expressed its presumption that immoderate Mexican detained successful the United States should beryllium deported instantly and not held astatine Alligator Alcatraz.

“We cognize that determination are immoderate Mexicans successful this detention halfway and we’re insisting that they beryllium deported [to Mexico] immediately,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that Mexico’s consulates successful the United States are investigating to find whether immoderate Mexicans held by U.S. authorities person suffered violations of their quality rights.

“If that is the case, the protocol that indispensable beryllium followed volition beryllium followed,” she said.

“But what we’ve requested is that they beryllium deported instantly successful bid to repatriate them.”

Consul of Mexico successful Orlando Juan Sabines Guerrero said helium would counsel Mexican authorities to see issuing a question alert for Mexican tourists to Orlando pursuing a gathering with the begetter of Carlos and Alejandro Martín González, Mexican citizens with valid U.S. visas who were detained by migration officials and sent to Alligator Alcatraz. (@Juansabinesg/X)

Asked however galore Mexicans are detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz, Sheinbaum said the fig was 14.

“All steps are being taken to person them repatriated immediately. A diplomatic enactment was sent, and from the Embassy of Mexico successful the United States and the consulates, we’re insisting that they beryllium integrated into Mexico arsenic soon arsenic possible,” she said.

Robbery of freight trucks down 22% successful 2025

National Guard Commander Hernán Cortés Hernández reported that the fig of robberies of freight trucks connected Mexico’s highways declined 22.41% successful the archetypal six months of 2025 compared to the aforesaid play of past year.

Data helium presented showed determination were 3,126 robberies betwixt January and June, down from 4,029 successful the archetypal fractional of 2024.

Cortés said that successful bid to combat the transgression of road robbery “with greater force,” Sheinbaum ordered the implementation of “Zero Robbery” plans connected the Mexico City-Querétaro, Mexico City-Puebla and Mazatlán-Culiacán highways.

He said that 29% of robberies targeting freight trucks hap connected the Mexico City-Querétaro and Mexico City-Puebla highways, portion the beefing up of information connected the Mazatlán-Culiacán road is owed to the “particular situation” successful Sinaloa, wherever rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are engaged successful a bloody war.

The National Guard (GN) main outlined the plans to combat robberies connected the aforementioned highways, noting that hundreds of troops and GN vehicles person been deployed to them, and highlighting that their efforts volition beryllium supported by helicopters and drones.

“With this deployment of troops and [surveillance] means we’re seeking to trim adjacent much the incidence of robberies of freight and backstage vehicles,” Cortés said.

The robbery of freight trucks and different vehicles has agelong been a occupation successful Mexico. In aboriginal 2024, the then-president of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers said that the transgression — which includes the hijacking of trucks successful immoderate cases — costs the system implicit 7 cardinal pesos (US $375 million) per year.

Sheinbaum highlights information survey results 

Early successful the property conference, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported that authorities person arrested much than 26,000 radical for high-impact crimes since the existent authorities took bureau connected Oct. 1. He said that 204 tonnes of drugs and 14,000 firearms person been seized successful the aforesaid period.

Sheinbaum presented a canvass connected Tuesday successful which 56% of respondents said that the information concern has improved (52%) since she took bureau oregon remains “just arsenic good” (4%) arsenic before. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

Later successful the mañanera, a newsman noted that 63% of respondents to a caller canvass said that Sheinbaum’s efforts to combat insecurity successful Mexico person been bully oregon precise good.

The president called for the results of De las Heras’ July information survey to beryllium displayed connected the surface down her.

“It’s a well-known polling company, and the question is whether the [security] concern has improved,” Sheinbaum said.

She noted that 56% of respondents said that the information concern has improved (52%) since she took bureau oregon remains “just arsenic good” (4%) arsenic before.

Among the different results Sheinbaum highlighted were those that showed that 53% of respondents said that her efforts to combat insecurity person been bully and an further 10% said that those efforts person been “very good.”

Asked however she felt astir the results of the survey — for which 1,000 radical crossed Mexico responded to questions during interviews astatine their homes — the president responded:

“We person to support working. … As agelong arsenic radical proceed to consciousness unsafe successful immoderate portion of the Republic we person to support working. And, furthermore, [combating insecurity] is our occupation and we’re doing it each day.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])