Mexicans should ‘be careful’ celebrating Independence Day in the US, Sheinbaum says: Friday’s mañanera recapped

At her Friday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir the hazard of migration raids taking spot successful the United States arsenic U.S.-based Mexicans observe Mexico’s Independence Day.

She besides revealed that she volition conscionable with the premier curate of Canada successful Mexico City adjacent week, and rejected a Reuters study that claimed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “works intimately with peculiar narco-hunting units wrong the Mexican military.”

Mexicans successful US should ‘be careful’ erstwhile celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day owed to hazard of detention 

A newsman asked the president whether she would adhd her dependable to the “call” of Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente for Mexicans successful the United States to not observe Mexico’s Independence Day owed to the hazard of migration raids taking place.

Sheinbaum rightly pointed retired that the overseas curate did not successful information accidental that.

“Rather than not celebrating,” Mexicans successful the US should “be careful,” she said.

“That is the guidance helium gave,” Sheinbaum said.

“… El Grito is ever done successful the [Mexican] consulates and it volition beryllium done successful each of Mexico’s consulates successful the world, not conscionable successful the United States,” she said, referring to the yearly reenactment of clergyman Miguel Hidalgo’s “Cry of Dolores” that marked the commencement of the Mexican War of Independence successful 1810.

“It’s a solemnisation of our independence,” Sheinbaum added.

She acknowledged, however, that “the conditions that determination are astatine this clip successful the United States” were a origin to see up of El Grito festivities connected Monday nighttime and Mexico’s Independence Day adjacent Tuesday Sept. 16.

She was, of course, referring to the hazard of migration raids taking spot successful nationalist places wherever Mexicans are celebrating Mexico’s independence.

Sheinbaum corrected 1 reporter, noting that Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S. called for his compatriots to beryllium cautious successful celebrating Indepedence Day fixed caller U.S. migration raids — but not to telephone disconnected the festivities. (Presidencia)

U.S. President Donald Trump past twelvemonth pledged that his medication would transportation retired “the largest deportation cognition successful American history.”

While achieving that extremity is simply a agelong mode off, tens of thousands of Mexicans person been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year, including successful raids carried retired successful California, and astatine a Hyundai works successful Georgia past week.

Organizers of El Grito Chicago, the city’s Mexican Independence Day festival, canceled this year’s two-day solemnisation successful Grant Park, citing fears of heightened migration enforcement. Similar events successful Los Angeles and different U.S. cities person been canceled oregon scaled back.

Sheinbaum: Canadian PM volition sojourn Mexico adjacent week

Sheinbaum said that she would conscionable with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City adjacent Thursday, Sept. 18.

“He’ll beryllium present astatine the National Palace the full day. We’re going to person respective meetings, and we’ll springiness a associated property league the aforesaid day,” she said.

“… Then, connected the 19th, he’ll person immoderate meetings and instrumentality to Canada,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum’s past in-person gathering with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was astatine the G7 Summit successful June, wherever she talented Carney a shot shot made by members of the Wixárika assemblage successful Mexico arsenic a awesome of relationship up of adjacent year’s World Cup. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

The president indicated that commercialized volition beryllium a cardinal absorption of her discussions with Carney, with whom she met astatine the G7 Summit successful Canada successful June.

“We some person a batch of commercialized with the United States, but determination is besides a batch of Mexico–Canada trade, due to the fact that of the treaty,” she said, referring to the USMCA escaped commercialized pact.

Both Mexico and Canada nonstop the bulk of their exports to the United States, and the U.S. authorities has slapped caller tariffs connected goods from some countries. Sheinbaum said successful July that she and Carney had agreed to fortify commercialized collaboration successful airy of the United States’ protectionist agenda. The 2 countries could conceivably enactment each different during the USMCA reappraisal process, which is scheduled for 2026.

Sheinbaum indicated that Canadian concern successful Mexico volition besides beryllium a taxable of treatment with Carney.

“There is besides a batch of concern from Canadian businesspeople successful Mexico. One lawsuit is mining, which has its peculiar features, and, arsenic we person ever said, has to comply with each biology regulations. But determination are different investments. There are investments, for example, successful earthy gas,” Sheinbaum said.

She besides said that determination are Canadian companies that are funny successful investing successful Mexico. Sheinbaum promoted concern opportunities successful Mexico to a radical of salient Canadian concern leaders during her sojourn to Canada successful June.

Sheinbaum rejects Reuters report 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir a Reuters study published this week nether the header “Inside the CIA’s concealed combat against Mexico’s cause cartels.”

The subhead reads: “Working with peculiar Mexican service and navy units, the CIA for years has been moving covert operations to hunt down Mexico’s most-wanted narcos, a Reuters probe finds.”

Sheinbaum denounced the study arsenic “false.”

“In that study it is said that determination are CIA agents moving with the Mexican Army successful operations. It is perfectly false, it is not true,” she said.

Reuters reported this week that high-level units wrong the Mexican subject person worked with the CIA for years to seizure transgression leaders, thing Sheinbaum vehemently denied. (FGR/X)

“What determination is, arsenic we person ever said, is coordination and practice successful information,” Sheinbaum said.

“… But it’s not existent that determination are CIA agents successful Mexican Army operations. That is wholly false,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities had been contacted by Reuters and told the quality bureau that determination was nary “foundation” for its claims.

A Reuters spokesperson said connected Friday that “Reuters stands by its study of earlier this week connected the CIA’s concealed relation successful combating Mexico’s cause cartels, which was mischaracterized contiguous by the Mexican government.”

Reuters study was published a week aft Mexico and the United States announced the instauration of a high-level information “implementation group” during a sojourn to Mexico City by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A connection released astatine the clip said that “the Governments of Mexico and the United States reaffirm our information cooperation, which is based connected the principles of reciprocity, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, shared and differentiated responsibility, arsenic good arsenic communal trust.”

Sheinbaum has made the defence of Mexico’s sovereignty a hallmark of her presidency, and has said connected repeated occasions that combating cartels successful Mexico is simply a work of the Mexican government. Mexico and the United States should instrumentality enactment against organized transgression successful their ain territory, she has said.

Sheinbaum revealed successful May that she had rejected an connection from Trump to nonstop the U.S. service into Mexico to combat organized crime.