Immigration and security, the focus of Sheinbaum’s meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Landau

Mexico doesn’t hold with migration raids targeting radical moving “honestly” successful the United States.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that she conveyed that connection to United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau during their gathering successful Mexico City connected Wednesday.

Sheinbaum discussed issues including migration and information argumentation with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. (Presidencia)

Speaking astatine her greeting property conference, Sheinbaum said that she and different Mexican officials discussed a scope of issues with Landau, who was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Ron Johnson during the gathering astatine the National Palace.

“We showed him the information results, [we spoke about] migration issues, we spoke astir the defence of our migrant brothers and sisters, [we said] we didn’t hold with raids being utilized to detain radical who enactment honestly successful the United States,” she said.

Sheinbaum said she told Landau that the apprehension of migrant workers successful the United States doesn’t conscionable “harm” the workers themselves, but besides the United States economy.

“We don’t hold with this strategy of criminalizing moving people,” she told reporters.

While Mexicans successful the United States nonstop tens of billions of dollars to Mexico successful remittances each year, the president and different Mexican officials person stressed that immoderate 80% of their net stay successful the U.S.

Sheinbaum said that Landau told her that helium would convey Mexico’s absorption to raids against migrant workers some to the State Department and President Donald Trump.

“What we privation is designation of the Mexican assemblage [in the United States], of the honest, noble enactment they each do,” she said.

“… [Landau] said helium was going to walk connected this message. And I said it was 1 of the issues we wanted to talk astir with President Trump the time we’re astatine the G7 [Summit],” Sheinbaum said.

Her gathering with Landau, a erstwhile U.S. ambassador to Mexico, came aft migration raids successful Los Angeles past week triggered ample protests successful the city. Sheinbaum said Wednesday that 61 Mexicans had been detained successful the raids and were being held successful detention centers successful Los Angeles. She has condemned unit during the L.A. protests, and promptly rejected a assertion by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that she had encouraged “violent protests” successful the city.

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Also contiguous astatine the National Palace gathering were Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente and Security Minister Omar García Harfuch.

It was held conscionable six days earlier Sheinbaum is expected to clasp her archetypal in-person talks with Trump during the G7 Summit successful Canada.

Sheinbaum: We person ‘various issues’ with the United States

Sheinbaum described her gathering with Landau arsenic a “courtesy meeting.”

“He came to present himself successful his caller duty successful the State Department of the authorities of President Trump,” she said.

“And — helium said — to question the champion [possible] narration betwixt Mexico and the United States,” Sheinbaum said.

“… It was a bully meeting,” she said.

Landau, seen present connected a travel to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, antecedently served arsenic U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2019-2021. (Christpher Landau/X)

Later successful her property conference, Sheinbaum noted that determination are a scope of “issues” (and tensions) successful the Mexico-United States relationship, and said they were discussed with Landau.

“There’s the cattle issue,” she said, referring to the United States’ suspension of livestock imports from Mexico owed to the detection of New World screwworm cases successful Mexican cattle.

“[There is] the contented of taxes connected remittances, determination is the alloy and aluminum [tariff],” Sheinbaum said.

She said that she pointed retired to Landau that Mexico imports much alloy and aluminum from the United States than it exports to its bluish neighbor, and stressed that “it’s indispensable to scope an agreement” connected the commercialized of those metals.

The Bloomberg quality bureau reported earlier this week that Mexico and the United States were “closing successful connected a deal” that would region Trump’s tariffs connected Mexican alloy — which doubled to 50% past week — “up to a definite volume.”

But arsenic of aboriginal Thursday afternoon, nary woody had been announced.

A woody to bring down 50% tariffs connected Mexican alloy is successful the works, Bloomberg reported earlier this week. (Mads Eneqvist/Unsplash)

Asked whether Landau had asked for thing circumstantial from Mexico, arsenic was the lawsuit when  Noem met with Sheinbaum successful March, the president said helium did not.

She subsequently denounced arsenic “completely false” a Reuters study that stated that “the Trump medication is pressuring Mexico to analyse and prosecute politicians with suspected links to organized crime, and to extradite them to the United States if determination are transgression charges to reply there.”

On Wednesday, Landau and Ambassador Johnson “didn’t inquire for anything,” Sheinbaum said.

“It was a courtesy visit. And we [interacted with them] ever with respect, but with firmness successful the defence of Mexicans successful the United States, and of what affects the radical of Mexico astatine this time,” she said.

Sheinbaum reiterates that gathering with Trump adjacent week is ‘very probable’

Three days aft she confirmed that she would instrumentality up the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and be adjacent week’s G7 Summit successful Alberta, Sheinbaum reiterated that a bilateral gathering with Trump was “very probable.”

On Tuesday, she said that security, migration and commercialized would beryllium the apical issues for treatment if she holds her archetypal in-person, one-on-one gathering with the U.S. president.

She said Thursday that Foreign Minister de la Fuente and the caput of the Foreign Ministry’s North America section Roberto Velasco would travel her to Canada, and that different ministers whitethorn articulation the travel arsenic well.

“We’re determining [who] according to the issues that volition beryllium dealt with,” Sheinbaum said.

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