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After months of talk during the presidential campaign and in the lead up to his inauguration, Donald Trump appears set to take action on his promises to build a wall on the US-Mexico border and to expel immigrants in the US illegally.
Sources told Reuters that Trump would begin issuing orders on Wednesday, likely directing the construction of the border wall and other actions to track down and deport undocumented immigrants.
As a part of the immigration and border measures, Trump is expected to propose the hiring of 5,000 more US border agents and call for local law enforcement agencies to work with federal immigration authorities. The latter step could mean raids on workplaces and homes and dividing families already in the US.
The reports of imminent action on Trump’s border and immigration plans have spurred backlash in Mexico – not only at Trump and not only for his continued insistence that Mexico will pay for the wall.
Mexico’s economy minister and newly appointed foreign minister are slated to meet with members of Trump’s team – including advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn – in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is to visit the US on January 31 to meet with Trump.
Accordingly, Mexicans have called on their government to cancel these meetings and send a message to the Trump administration that it will not kowtow to what is seen as bullying.
Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray – the foreign minister who, as finance minister, arranged Trump’s controversial meeting with the Mexican president in late August – have also been singled out for derision and exhortations.
“I don’t think there are conditions for the visit of president [Peña Nieto] to Washington,” tweeted Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, a professor of government and public policy in Monterrey. “Peña will arrive in Washington with things decided against him. For one thing, the wall. He should not go,” Héctor Aguilar Camín, a writer and director of Nexos magazine, said on Twitter.
Jorge Castañeda, Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, said the leak of plans for executive orders on border and immigration policies on the eve of the Mexican government’s meetings in Washington was “outrageous.”
“The president of USA has been very erratic and the leaks are undeniably his; it is a game of bad faith that could put [Peña Nieto] in a situation of vulnerability because he has nothing to gain,” Castañeda said in an interview with Imagen Radio.
After months of talk during the presidential campaign and in the lead up to his inauguration, Donald Trump appears set to take action on his promises to build a wall on the US-Mexico border and to expel immigrants in the US illegally.
Sources told Reuters that Trump would begin issuing orders on Wednesday, likely directing the construction of the border wall and other actions to track down and deport undocumented immigrants.
As a part of the immigration and border measures, Trump is expected to propose the hiring of 5,000 more US border agents and call for local law enforcement agencies to work with federal immigration authorities. The latter step could mean raids on workplaces and homes and dividing families already in the US.
The reports of imminent action on Trump’s border and immigration plans have spurred backlash in Mexico – not only at Trump and not only for his continued insistence that Mexico will pay for the wall.
Mexico’s economy minister and newly appointed foreign minister are slated to meet with members of Trump’s team – including advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn – in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is to visit the US on January 31 to meet with Trump.
Accordingly, Mexicans have called on their government to cancel these meetings and send a message to the Trump administration that it will not kowtow to what is seen as bullying.
Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray – the foreign minister who, as finance minister, arranged Trump’s controversial meeting with the Mexican president in late August – have also been singled out for derision and exhortations.
“I don’t think there are conditions for the visit of president [Peña Nieto] to Washington,” tweeted Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, a professor of government and public policy in Monterrey. “Peña will arrive in Washington with things decided against him. For one thing, the wall. He should not go,” Héctor Aguilar Camín, a writer and director of Nexos magazine, said on Twitter.
Jorge Castañeda, Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, said the leak of plans for executive orders on border and immigration policies on the eve of the Mexican government’s meetings in Washington was “outrageous.”
“The president of USA has been very erratic and the leaks are undeniably his; it is a game of bad faith that could put [Peña Nieto] in a situation of vulnerability because he has nothing to gain,” Castañeda said in an interview with Imagen Radio.
