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Mexico’s most sensible diplomat for North America rejected the Supreme Court’s decision, saying immigration policy will be negotiated between federal governments.
By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
Report from Mexico City
Mexico “under no circumstances” will accept deportations conducted through Texas,” the U. S. State Department said Tuesday in reaction to the U. S. Supreme Court’s ruling allowing Texas to arrest immigrants who enter the state illegally.
The branch condemned the state law, known as Senate Bill 4, saying it would separate families, violate the human rights of immigrants and create “hostile environments” for the more than 10 million people of Mexican descent living in Texas.
Mexico’s most sensible diplomat for North America, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, rejected the resolution on social media on Tuesday, saying immigration policy is anything that needs to be negotiated between federal governments.
The Mexican government has harshly criticized the move since last year and has rejected the idea that local or state agencies, in addition to federal ones, detain and return migrants and asylum seekers to Mexican territory.
“Texas has taken a very combative stance,” said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of California, San Diego. “This compounds the challenge because parts of the border are violently closed, and others will remain open. “
A senior Mexican Foreign Ministry official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Supreme Court’s ruling would not invalidate existing migration agreements between the two countries.
While Mexico has acted as a U. S. immigration controller, deterring migrants from massing at the border, the country has also publicly pushed two key policies to address the deep reasons that force others to leave their home countries, such as poverty, violence, inequality, and climate replacing — and expanding normal migration routes.
Last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his administration proposing that Biden’s administration grant legal prestige to at least five million undocumented Mexicans living and fleeing in the United States.
He also called on the United States to suspend sanctions against Venezuela and lift the blockade against Cuba, saying such measures would reduce migration flows from those countries. And he called proposals to build walls or close the border “election propaganda. “
“Do you think Americans and Mexicans will approve of this?Mr. López Obrador said it last month. “Businesses can’t stand it. Maybe for a day, but not for a week.
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega is a journalist and researcher for The Times in Mexico City, covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Learn more about Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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