Mexico's president on Trump deportation plans: Immigrants are not 'criminals'
Story by Patrick J. McDonnell
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"We don't agree that migrants be treated as criminals," Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her strongest condemnation of Trump's vow to implement the largest deportations in U.S. history.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said immigrants shouldn't be viewed as "criminals," but declared that Mexico has a plan for an influx of returnees should President-elect Donald Trump proceed with threatened mass deportations of immigrants, many of them Mexican nationals.
"We don’t agree that migrants be treated as criminals," Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday at her regular morning news conference, in her strongest condemnation yet of Trump's vow to implement the largest deportations in U.S. history.
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