Mexico will not accept unilateral Trump immigration steps, foreign minister says

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Source: The Guardian

Mexico has indicated it would not accept the Trump administration’s new US immigration proposals, saying it would go to the United Nations to defend the rights of immigrants in the US.

Luis Videgaray, Mexico’s foreign minister, was responding to Donald Trump’s plans to enforce immigration rules more vigorously against undocumented migrants, which could lead to mass deportations to Mexico, not just of Mexicans but also citizens of other Latin American countries.

“We are not going to accept it because we don’t have to accept it,” Videgaray said, according to the Reforma newspaper. “I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that one government wants to unilaterally impose on another.”

The sweeping measures were announced in Washington on the eve of a visit to Mexico by the US secretaries of state and homeland security that had been aimed at salvaging bilateral relations, currently at their lowest point in at least three decades.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/mexico-trump-immigration-foreign-minister-luis-videgaray

[MattP]

1. How would Scrotus like it if Canada kicked anybody over the US border

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2. Sovereignty is too big of a word and concept for Twitler to comprehend

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3. Any word bigger than "me me me" is too big for Twitler to understand. nt

[Native]

6. I don't think he'd give a damn.

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4. The Great Negotiator just made a foolish play. By the time he works his way

through the UN maze, his term will have expired.

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5. Actually opposite- The UN "meddling" in US affairs will make his base go nuts

Burn the UN marches in the streets

[Native]

7. Yup.

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10. He thinks he can act unilaterally in the world and Mexico is saying NO to that.

I'm sure Trump's base will lap it up, but also sure most of the world is already fed up with Trump's strong arm regime.

[riversedge]

8. Mexico says no to Trump's new deportation rules

Mexico says no to Trump's new deportation rules

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/22/foriegn-minister-mexico-immigrations-proposals/98252710/




David Agren and Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Published 1:34 p.m. ET Feb. 22, 2017 | Updated




MEXICO CITY — Mexico will vigorously fight U.S. mass deportations of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico and refuse to accept any non-Mexicans expelled across the border, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray vowed Wednesday.

A day after the Trump administration unveiled tough new guidelines for enforcing immigration laws, Videgaray said the treatment of Mexican migrants in the United States would top his country's agenda when President Enrique Peña Nieto meets Thursday with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

“I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another,” Videgary said.

He added that Mexico would go to the United Nations to defend the rights of its migrants. “We are not going to accept it because we don’t have to accept it and because it is not in the interests of Mexico,” he said.

The Department of Homeland Security said its new directives focus on criminals and those who pose a threat to the U.S., but the provisions expand the authority of federal agents to deport the vast majority of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Under the new rules, all federal immigration officers can now conduct an "expedited removal" anywhere in the U.S. against people who arrived in the U.S. in the previous two years.

One critical provision, which requires Mexico's cooperation, allows federal agents to send people back to Mexico, even if they're not from that country. Many recent arrivals to the U.S. came from Central America, traveling through Mexico...........................

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9. "One critical provision, which requires Mexico's cooperation..." Looks like Mexico says 'Hell NO'

to that and rightfully so.

Thanks for posting the additional info, riversedge.