Mexico's president pushed back against the incoming Trump administration's rhetoric against migrants.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her regular morning press conference that she wasn’t in favor of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, and pushed back against the assertion that migrants are violent.
“People migrate for necessity and to create the best lives possible for their families,” Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum also said Mexico would be open to collaborating with the U.S. to receive non-Mexican migrants who are deported, seemingly walking back a previous statement that she hoped to come to an agreement with Trump to not take-third country migrants.
Sheinbaum said at another recent press conference that she has developed a plan with northern Mexican states, including Sonora, in case of mass deportations.
In a post on Truth Social on New Year's Day, Trump seemed to link a violent attack in New Orleans with open borders. The alleged perpetrator in that attack was not an immigrant.
