[Baltimore Sun] Mexican president says country prepared for Trump deportation plans, will receive citizens
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday the country has a plan to receive any Mexicans that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump deports en masse, according to Reuters.
She also reportedly said during the press conference that Mexico will try to show that its citizens living illegally in the U.S. help the American economy.
“We will receive Mexicans, and we have a plan for it, but before that, we will work to demonstrate that they do not have to deport our compatriots who are on the other side of the border,” Reuters quoted Sheinbaum as saying. “On the contrary, they even benefit the economy of the United States.”
Trump confirmed Monday that his incoming administration will use the U.S. military to carry out a “mass deportation program.” In September, the president-elect pledged to have the “largest deportation in the history of our country” and suggested that over 20 million people are living in the U.S. illegally.
“We have the worst border in the history of the world. There’s never been a border like this,” he said. “And I want to be the border president, and I hope you call me the border president because I’ll show you what a border security job we can do. And we’re gonna do a job like never has been done before.”
Trump added that the “mass deportation” would begin in Colorado and Ohio, states he claimed saw taken over. He discussed both states during a September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris and claimed Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, had eaten household pets, a rumor that local officials repeatedly rejected.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in an interview with Colorado Public Radio that he would welcome the federal government’s help in finding people who have committed crimes but cautioned against pursuing those who haven’t broken the law.
“Obviously, the fear is he’s talking about going after law-abiding Coloradans who might’ve lived here for 20, 30 years, who are working as construction workers or in ag [agriculture] or in the hospitality industry,” Colorado Public Radio quoted him as saying. “And obviously it would devastate our economy and our society if someone were to come in and forcibly take our neighbors away from us.”
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