The first battle: Claudia Sheinbaum moves against Trump’s immigration policy

The first battle: Claudia Sheinbaum moves against Trump’s immigration policy

The tightening of the United States’ immigration policy is at the heart of Mexico’s concerns. This has been made clear by the statements of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has already activated her Cabinet to seek alternatives to temper Donald Trump’s heavy-handed discourse and his campaign promise to deport up to one million immigrants in an irregular situation each year. Although there are still two months left until the Republican’s inauguration, the Mexican government is already working on documents to demonstrate with hard data the contributions of the Mexican diaspora to the economy of both countries, as well as the benefits of the trade agreement between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada (T-MEC), which will be reviewed in 2026. The signals that Sheinbaum has sent, however, indicate that the migration crisis is for now the priority front for Mexico and the first major obstacle to be resolved in the bilateral relationship. “We do not agree that migrants should be treated as criminals,” said the president in her most recent press conference.

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