Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to visit Mexico this week on a multi-country trip that started Wednesday.
Noem will also make stops in El Salvador and Colombia. She is set to meet with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, as well as Mexico’s foreign minister.
Sheinbaum said Noem will get a briefing from Mexico’s security cabinet. Mexico looks to show the United States it has a handle on security in the face of President Donald Trump’s tariff threat. To underscore this, Sheinbaum’s administration says homicides are down since she took office.
In El Salvador, Noem is visiting a controversial mega-prison known for harsh conditions. It’s where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants recently expelled from the United States are jailed and in legal limbo.
Trump expelled some of those migrants under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act. A federal judge blocked its use, but not before the migrants were already en route to the prison.
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The small, electric vehicles are designed to be accessible to a domestic market in Mexico. -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called the recent reports from CNN and the New York Times “a fiction the size of the universe.” -
The Nogales International Film Festival will screen movies directly in front of the border wall, so people on either side can experience films together. -
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights investigation called out structural problems leading to Mexico’s more than 128,000 disappearances. -
Reports about a review of Mexico’s consulates in the United States follows the death of two U.S. agents in Mexico.
