Mexico’s president says her country will escalate legal action after U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fatally shot a Mexican national in Texas on Tuesday.
The shooting in Houston comes after Mexico earlier this spring called for thorough investigations into other deaths of its citizens in the United States relating to immigration enforcement and detention.
More than a dozen Mexican nationals have died either in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations since last year, when President Donald Trump took office and ramped up immigration enforcement.
Mexico filed an amicus brief earlier this year in a lawsuit alleging poor conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center outside of Los Angeles. At least four Mexican nationals who have died in ICE custody since the start of 2025 were being held at that facility.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference Wednesday that her country will pursue additional legal measures.
Mexico will now “go further” than prior diplomatic notes to the United States and a request for a hearing on the topic from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights made earlier this year, Sheinbaum said.
“We can’t permit the mistreatment of our people in the United States,” Sheinbaum said.
In addition to this week’s fatal shooting in Houston, ICE reported the death of a Mexican national under their custody in Laredo, Texas, in late June.
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