If there were any, “we are going to receive Mexicans and we have a plan for it, but we are going to work beforehand to show that our fellow citizens who are on the other side of the border do not have to be deported,” the president said at a press conference.

In response to a question about the announcements on this matter by the president-elect of the neighboring country, the dignitary expressed her disagreement with treating migrants as criminals and considered that justice institutions exist for that in any part of the world. That is why yesterday I made a special emphasis and we will continue to do so on the importance of the work of Mexicans there, how much resources they pay in taxes, the work they do, which is first class, the need of the United States for those workers, he said.

She said that the cabinet will hold a meeting on Thursday on the different issues to be discussed with the incoming administration, such as trade, migration, security, everything related to the bilateral relationship -and also trilateral with Canada, in the case of the trade agreement between the three countries.

“There is still no meeting (with Trump’s team), but we hope that it can take place so that we can show all this information, because sometimes with a phrase that has no basis, Mexicans in the United States are accused, for example,” he said.

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