In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in North Charleston, S.C. Then-candidate Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: “We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work,” he said. “We get nothing.”
Category: Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico prepares to absorb a wave of deportees in the Trump era – Sat, 04 Mar 2017 PST
The deportees stepped off their flight from El Paso looking bewildered – 135 men who had left families and jobs behind after being swept up in the Trump administration’s mounting effort to send millions of undocumented immigrants back to their economically fraught homeland. As they filed into Mexico City International Airport last week, government employees handed them free ham-and-cheese sandwiches, Mexican ID cards and information directing them to social services in the capital.
US, Mexico at odds over deportation as top officials meet
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, before his departure to Mexico. President Donald Trump is sending his Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants to build on the southern border.
Mexico bristles at ‘hostile’ Trump deportation rules
Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray addresses the audience during a meeting between Mexico and the United Nations on human rights in Mexico City, Mexico February 22, 2017. Photo: Reuters Mexico reacted with anger on Wednesday to what one official called “hostile” new US immigration guidelines hours before senior Trump administration envoys began arriving in Mexico City for talks on the volatile issue.
Trump’s threat of mass deportation fills Mexican migrant towns with fear
In an undated handout photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a suspect in Los Angeles in February of 2017. With an executive order last month and a pair of Department of Homeland Security memos on Feb. 22, the Trump administration has significantly hardened the country’s policies regarding illegal immigration.
‘El Presidente’ Enrique Pena-Nieto coming to Washington
Let me give President Enrique Pea Nieto a little credit for taking the initiative and setting up a meeting with President Trump. He is under a lot of political pressure south of the border.
Trump moves to pull US out of Pacific-Rim trade deal
President Donald Trump moved to pull the United States out of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact Monday, dealing a quick blow to Barack Obama’s legacy as the new chief executive began fulfilling campaign promises in his first full week in office. “Great thing for the American worker that we just did,” Trump said in brief remarks as he signed a notice in the Oval Office.
Citizen sleuths’ new clue in aviation mystery
But even after the FBI shut the book on the mysterious case of DB Cooper, armchair detectives have refused to give up the search for answers. They’ve continued to investigate who this well-dressed businessman was, why he hijacked a US domestic flight 45 years ago, and how he then disappeared without a trace.