Sheinbaum reminds Trump of the United States’ immigrant roots: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

At her Thursday greeting property conference, held connected International Migrants Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum deed backmost astatine remarks U.S. President Donald Trump made astir immigrants successful the United States.

Later successful the property conference, she fielded a question astir U.S. sanctions against a notorious Mexican transgression group.

Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s remarks astir migrants 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum her sentiment connected the remarks Trump made astir migrants during a code connected the U.S. system helium delivered connected Wednesday night.

In the speech, Trump said that during the Biden medication the United States “border was open” and “our state was being invaded by an service of 25 cardinal people, galore who came from prisons and jails, intelligence institutions and insane asylums.”

“They were cause dealers, pack members and adjacent 11,888 murderers,” helium said.

Trump besides said that “we inherited the worst borderline anyplace successful the world, and we rapidly turned it into the strongest borderline successful the past of our country.”

In addition, helium said “we’re deporting criminals” and asserted that Somalians “have taken implicit the economics of the authorities [of Minnesota] and person stolen billions and billions of dollars from Minnesota, and so from the United States of America.”

Sheinbaum — who has antecedently condemned the criminalization of migrants — said that she and her authorities colleagues don’t hold with Trump’s remarks.

Mexicans and radical from “many different places successful the satellite get successful the United States seeking a amended beingness and amended income successful bid to nonstop [money] to their families,” she said.

Sheinbaum besides highlighted that the United States “grew with migration.”

“It’s the root of our neighboring country, … they arrived from Europe, from galore places and built the federation it is,” she said.

Sheinbaum besides highlighted that “Mexicans assistance the United States system successful galore areas,” including successful the agriculture, operation and services sectors.

In summation to defending Mexicans successful the U.S., the president besides touted authorities Finabien cards arsenic a low-cost mode for Mexicans overseas to nonstop wealth home. (Hazel Cárdenas / Presidencia)

“Also successful galore areas wherever determination weren’t Mexicans [before],” she added earlier specifically citing “research centers” and noting that Mexican scientists and academics unrecorded and enactment successful the United States.

“So, we question different presumption [of migration] and we’re ever going to support … our brothers and sisters” successful the United States, said Sheinbaum, who has voiced her absorption to Trump’s deportation docket connected respective occasions.

US enactment against Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel is ‘not thing new,’ says Sheinbaum

A newsman noted that the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced connected Wednesday that it had sanctioned the Guanajuato-based Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL).

In a statement, the Treasury Department announced that its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had besides sanctioned José Antonio “El Marro” Yépez Ortiz, the CSRL person who was arrested successful 2020 and sentenced to 60 years successful situation successful 2022.

Treasury said that CSRL “derives the immense bulk of its illicit gross from substance and lipid theft successful the Mexican authorities of Guanajuato,” and noted that the struggle betwixt the transgression radical and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel “for power of substance and lipid successful Guanajuato has made the authorities 1 of the deadliest successful Mexico.”

“CSRL’s activities besides assistance alteration a cross-border vigor achromatic market, undermine morganatic U.S. lipid and earthy state companies, and deprive the Mexican authorities of captious revenue,” the connection said.

The U.S. announced sanctions this week against the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and its leader, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, who is presently incarcerated successful Mexico’s Altiplano maximum-security prison. (File photo)

OFAC’s sanctions connected CSRL and Yépez Ortiz see the blocking of “all spot and interests successful property” they person successful the United States.

Asked what accusation her authorities had astir the sanctions, Sheinbaum responded that the United States’ enactment against CSRL is “not thing new,” telling reporters that U.S. slope accounts linked to members of the Guanajuato-based transgression radical were frozen respective years ago.

“Now determination is an further sanction, but the freezing of accounts occurred immoderate clip ago,” she said, noting that the caput of the government’s Financial Intelligence Unit had informed her and her information furniture colleagues of the concern anterior to the mañanera.

Asked astir the Treasury Department’s accusation that Yépez “continues to beryllium progressive successful CSRL from wrong prison,” Sheinbaum responded that it is the work of the Security Ministry to analyse crimes allegedly committed from jails.

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