Possible mass deportations of immigrants living in the United States and tariffs implemented by the Mexican government this week were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke about at her Friday morning press conference.
She also announced that a former governor would take over the leadership of one of Mexico’s energy agencies.
Mexico could receive non-Mexican deportees, Sheinbaum says
Sheinbaum reiterated that Mexico “is not in favor” of the mass deportations United States President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to undertake during his second stint in the White House.
“But if they happen … we’re going to receive the Mexicans that arrive in our country, and we’re going to ask the United States to, as far as is possible, send migrants who aren’t from Mexico to their countries of origin. And if they can’t, we could collaborate through different mechanisms,” she said.
Sheinbaum said last month that Mexico has an agreement with the Biden administration under which the United States sends deportees “of many nationalities” on direct flights to their countries of origin. She said that her government hoped to reach a deal with the incoming Trump administration so that most non-Mexican deportees continue to be sent to their countries of origin.
If Mexico were to agree to receive non-Mexican deportees, the federal government could limit acceptance “to certain nationalities or request compensation from the U.S. to move the deportees from Mexico to their home countries,” The Associated Press reported.
AP noted that “Mexico, like any other country, is not obligated to accept non-Mexican migrants, but it has agreed to do so in the recent past, especially from countries like Cuba and Venezuela.”
Those countries, the news agency added, “often refuse deportation flights from the United States, but may accept them from Mexico.”
Sheinbaum said Friday “there will be a time to speak with the United States government if these [proposed] deportations really happen.”
“But we will receive … [deportees] here and we will receive them properly. We have a plan that I said yesterday we would present in due course,” she said.
Sheinbaum explains objective of new tariffs
Asked about the new tariffs on products imported via e-commerce sites, Sheinbaum said they are aimed at individuals or companies purchasing large quantities of goods to sell in Mexico.
“There are these [online] platforms where one can request any product. One thing is the individual arrival [to Mexico] of one piece, but what we detected is that in reality [the e-commerce sites] were being used to bring [products into Mexico] and then sell them in Mexico,” she said.
“And that requires the payment of taxes,” Sheinbaum said, apparently also referring to a new rule requiring foreign e-commerce sites to pay Mexico’s value-added tax.
“One person, an individual, requesting a piece is not the same thing as [many] pieces being brought in to be sold, right?” Sheinbaum added.
She said that many Mexican small businesses have closed down due to reasons that include the entry of products from countries with which Mexico doesn’t have trade agreements, such as China. Some of those products enter Mexico to be sold “widely” after they were purchased on e-commerce sites (such as Temu and Shein), Sheinbaum said.
Disincentivizing that practice is the objective of the new tariffs, she said.
Former Veracruz governor joins federal government
Sheinbaum announced that former Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García will take on the role of director of the National Center for Natural Gas Control (Cenagas).
García, who completed his six-year term as governor of Veracruz last November, will start in the position next Monday, the president said.
“Few people know that Cuitláhuac is a mechanical and electrical engineer who studied at the Veracruzana University. He’s a very good engineer,” Sheinbaum said.
“He was studying his doctorate abroad and in 2006, if I’m not mistaken, or 2012, he took the decision to leave the doctorate to come to fight for the transformation of Mexico,” she said of the former Morena party governor.
Sheinbaum described García as an “honest” man “with a lot of technical knowledge” about energy.
“He will help us coordinate all the work at Cenagas related to the production, use and distribution of natural gas,” she said.
By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies ([email protected])
I agree with you 100%. These migrants from other countries need to be flown back to their point of origin where they live and that includes all the “undocumented “kids” that came to the US all alone. Separate all the “kids” by their “country “of origin and fly them back to their “parents”. THAT IS WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS ON DOING. Gather and “segregate” all “children” by their country where they came from and fly them back home to “Mama” and “Papa” where you belong.
Will he send them back to their identified family, or simply dump them into the country that they think they came from and make that country try to figure this out?
Lots of these children are there alone because of the cruel policy of Trump to tear children away from their parents on purpose and then not have the sense of decency to even record the information of their birth parents. Over 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the border. But hundreds remain separated.
These folk needed to create an enemy scapegoat to blame for national troubles and will soon choose another group once this disastrous move fails. They say it will be transgender people.
Hate breeds more hate. Hate, fear and racism are again weaponized against the vulnerable for political gain. The victims be damned!
Show us where “kid” or “child” is used by anyone in the article. I know that you can’t show me anything that Trump “PLANS ON DOING”.
Over 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the border. But hundreds remain separated.
Their point of origin is Mexico. There is no border with Honduras or Guatemala. Had Mexico enforced their own borders they would have never made it to the US.
Incorrect. The southern border of Mexico was left open in coordination with the Biden administration to allow influx in the USA in order to prop up the faltering voter base for the Dems. Since it became clear that Trump doesn’t welcome illegal immigration, the southern border is locked down. This from my wife’s cousin who’s a “jefe” in the Federal Emergency Services.
These young people, educated in the US and bilingual, are net assets to the US economy and society. It makes no sense to deport young people who are not creating problems. The US has a declining population without more immigrants.
No they are not net assets. The US has a housing shortage that has been severely exasperated by unfettered immigration. Immigrants have no health insurance and use the emergency rooms at hospitals for their medical needs. This clogs the system for citizens with legitimate emergencies. Other services such as schools have high costs that are paid by American taxpayers. The US doesn’t need or want more immigrants. That’s why they are coming back. If you want to immigrate to the US, get an attorney and follow the rules.
Trump and Musk seem to want more immigrants because Americans are too lazy to do the work the Indians can do.
YOu lack knowledge of history. We , America , are immigrants, practically all of us. Your words are insulting. My immigrant grandparents have more America in their baby fingers than you have in your brain. They are the persons who have made America a prosperous country.
Housing shortage? LMAO. Come to Colorado. There is plenty of housing if you want to pay half a million for a house, or $1500 per month for a one bedroom apartment. I’m sure plenty of those folks needing housing can afford these. Come and get them. They are open and empty. You’ll need two people working to afford an apartment though with the jobs available. And DODE isn’t spinning low paying jobs for Americans. Just high paying jobs for foreigners.
The United States of America the only country I know of who breaks it own immigration laws.
How will the Mexican economy survive the influx of over 7 million people that Mexico assisted access to the US? (the 7 million is just the number that entered during the Biden administration)
Trump let in over 4 million and he did squat then. LMAO.
. . . it’s the deep DC & CDMX swamp, corrupt politicians in border states on both sides, bought & paid for by Cartel BIG $$$ BUCKS $$$ “that let in” millions of undocumented people, smarty-pants
CHINA is nobody’s friend in the western hemisphere . . .
FROM THE ARTICLE: “. . . many Mexican small businesses have closed down due to reasons that include the entry of products from countries with which Mexico doesn’t have trade agreements, such as China . . .”
Belt and Road Initiative ala the CCP