Sheinbaum: 'We'll be prepared to welcome' Mexican deportees

MND Staff
December 5, 2024



Claudia Sheinbaum standing at the presidential podium at the National Palace at her daily press conference. Her left hand is raised with her palm facing reporters as she speaks.
President Sheinbaum said Thursday that she plans to meet with governors of Mexico's northern border states to come to an agreement about how to receive what could be millions of Mexican deportees, if Donald Trump's promises of mass deportation come to fruition. (Andrea Murcia Monsivais/Cuartoscuro)

With the inauguration of the 47th president of the United States less than seven weeks away, Mexico is preparing – or, some might say, bracing – for the return of Donald Trump.

Ahead of his return to the White House, Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican exports to the United States and pledged to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history.”

The latter promise – and especially the possibility of it becoming reality – was a key focus of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning press conference on Thursday. Among other remarks at her Thursday mañanera, Sheinbaum recalled the period of her life when she lived as an immigrant in the United States.

Feds and border states to plan for possible US mass deportations

Sheinbaum noted that all state governors will attend a security meeting with federal officials in Acapulco next week.

She indicated that on the sidelines of that meeting, the governors of Mexico’s six northern border states – Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas – will gather with federal officials to discuss Donald Trump’s stated plan to carry out a mass deportation operation.

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