(UDHAYAM, MEXICO CITY) – Mexico has condemned new guidelines issued by the United States on deporting undocumented immigrants.
Under plans unveiled by the new US administration on Tuesday (21st Tuesday), almost all people staying in the US illegally can be subject to deportation.
The Mexican Foreign Minister said his country could not “accept unilateral decisions imposed by one government on another.”
The row comes as two top US officials are preparing to visit Mexico.
The White House said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Head of Homeland Security, John Kelly, would talk to Mexican officials and “walk through” the implementation of the new immigration guidelines.
They include plans to enforce an existing provision of the US Immigration and Nationality Act that allows authorities to send undocumented migrants back to Mexico, regardless of where they are from.
