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After President Trump signed the executive order, many turned to their country, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico made a special appearance on Tuesday morning.
“It’s important to always keep a cool head,” he told reporters at a press conference.
Ms. Sheinbaum said Mexico would support its citizens in the United States, calling them “heroes and national heroes.” He said the country will act within the Mexican Constitution and laws. And he sent a message to those watching: “I hope they know that the president of the republic will always protect Mexico, above all else.”
Ms. Sheinbaum then presented the five executive orders announced by Mr. Trump on Monday that directly affect Mexico, addressing each one.
“It’s happened before — it’s nothing new,” Ms. Sheinbaum said, referring to Mr. Trump’s 2019 declaration of a national emergency to address federal funding to build a border wall.
At the time, his predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who managed to build a warm relationship with the Trump administration, worked with the United States, Ms. Sheinbaum said. He said that he is also ready to cooperate.
At the time, Mr. López Obrador curry favor with Mr. Trump by allowing the United States to order major concessions on immigration. Mexico took on the burden of housing and feeding tens of thousands of desperate migrants, straining resources in the cities.
According to human rights groups, many have also fallen prey to gangs who have abducted, tortured, abducted, abused and killed them.
‘Stay In Mexico’ Revival
Mr. Trump has vowed to restore the so-called “Stay in Mexico” policy, which, during his first administration, forced immigrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico until their hearings came in immigration court. living in the United States.
At that time, Mr. López Obrador agreed to accept migrants, who had been waiting for months in border towns. Likewise, when the Trump administration instituted Title 42, a policy that allowed US border officials to quickly deport asylum seekers, Mexico agreed to take them in.
This time, things may be different.
“If there’s someone at the border, especially if it’s very cold, of course, we’re doing something humanitarian,” Ms. Sheinbaum said Tuesday. “We will not allow people to go out into the open. And then we try to send them back to their country if they are foreigners. “
Asked if this meant that non-Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the United States would not be allowed to wait in Mexico this time, Ms. Sheinbaum said: “When they come to the border, they will not be able to enter the the border. United States. So it is better for them to go back to their country of origin”.
If Mexico were to pay for those deportation flights, Ms. Sheinbaum said her team would talk to the Trump administration about it.
Renaming the Gulf
In an attempt to honor what he called a “great American,” Mr. Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The issue has been mocked in Mexico, where this month Ms. Sheinbaum herself joked that the United States should be called “Mexican America.”
Mr. Trump’s order instructed the US Secretary of the Interior to rename the continental shelf that includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as the Gulf of America.
That’s good, Ms. Sheinbaum said, adding: “For us and for the world, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.”
Note the Terrorist Cartels
Mr. Trump said he would consider designating Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” — a move that could have multiple consequences.
The nomination could pave the way for his administration to take military action against cartels, including on Mexican soil. And it could create problems for multinational companies operating in Mexico, as financial ties to cartels, such as extortion payments made under duress, could be scrutinized.
“They can operate in their territory,” said Ms. Sheinbaum, adding that gangs also operated in the United States. “What we will protect is our national sovereignty and independence,” he said.
It was a message he sent time and time again: Mexico is ready to work with the United States, not be subordinate to it. On Tuesday, new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated Ms. Sheinbaum’s willingness to work together to curtail cartel activity.
“He said, ‘We’re going to seek coordination with Mexico,’ and that’s what we’re going to seek,” he said. “We all want to fight the drug cartels, of course. So what should we do? Yes. , we need to coordinate efforts. We have to work together.”
Review of business practices
Mr. Trump has ordered the agency and federal officials to begin investigations into trade practices — such as trade deficits and what they consider “unfair” trade — by Mexico and other countries.
The US Trade Representative has also been instructed to prepare for the renegotiation of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, scheduled for July 2026. The agreement was signed in 2020 during Mr Trump’s first administration, and he called it a “huge victory”.
U.S. officials are expected to assess any “illegal migration and flow of fentanyl” from Mexico and Canada, and make recommendations to address the “emergency” — a situation that has been described as Ms. Sheinbaum said it might not happen.
“So it’s important to be calm,” he said.
Simon Romero contributed to the report.
