Politicians in Mexico and across Latin America are anxiously watching the outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. Presidential contest in light of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “deport 11 million criminal aliens” if he is elected.
While considering the implications of a Trump presidency, Mexicans are also trying to navigate how a new U.S. president will work with newly elected Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, her term just a month old.
“It’s important to remember that many Mexicans have family on both sides of the border and, as a result, are very impacted by U.S.-Mexico relations,” wrote Travis Bembenek, the CEO of Mexico News Daily who has been living and working in Mexico for over 27 years..
Trump has sounded the alarm over illegal immigration during his bid for the White House, claiming that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he said at a rally in New Hampshire, a piece of divisive campaign rhetoric that he has repeated with increased vitriol without the facts to back it up.
Trump has said, and his running mate JD Vance has echoed his claims, “criminal aliens are pouring across the border,” despite Customers and Border Protection data that show apprehensions are at an all-time low during the administration of President Joe Biden. They are close to numbers seen during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when migration crawled to a near stop.
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