Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that she told a visiting US official she opposes the immigration raids sparking protests across the United States.
Sheinbaum said she informed US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau that “we didn’t agree with the use of raids to detain people working honestly in the United States.”
Such actions “would not only hurt people but also the US economy,” she said at her morning news conference, a day after meeting Landau at the National Palace.
Landau promised to relay her concerns to US President Donald Trump, Sheinbaum said, adding that she hoped to tell him face-to-face herself at an international summit in Canada next week.
The Mexican leader has been invited by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to join leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations for talks.
More than 60 Mexicans have been detained in the US raids targeting migrants, according to Sheinbaum’s government.
On Tuesday, Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Sheinbaum of inciting the protests, an allegation that the Mexican leader rejected as “absolutely false.”
In response to the unrest, Trump deployed several thousand National Guard troops and 700 active-duty marines over the objections of Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom, the first such action by a US president in decades.
Landau was due to visit El Salvador and Guatemala after Mexico, where he previously served as US ambassador during Trump’s first administration.
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