‘He’s probably unaware’: Sheinbaum disputes Stephen Miller’s claim that CDMX is ‘run by cartels’

Stephen Miller, a high-ranking U.S. authorities official, claimed connected Monday that Mexico City is “run by transgression cartels,” prompting President Claudia Sheinbaum to state that helium is astir apt unaware of the world of the concern successful the capital.

Miller, White House lawman main of unit for argumentation and U.S. President Donald Trump’s homeland information advisor, made the assertion during an interrogation connected Fox News with Sean Hannity.

After defending Trump’s determination to deploy the U.S. National Guard to Washington, D.C., Miller asserted that U.S. cities governed by the Democratic Party are “more convulsive than Baghdad, much convulsive than communities successful Ethiopia and places that galore Americans wouldn’t adjacent imagination of visiting.”

Democrat-controlled cities are much convulsive than “some of the astir unsafe places connected satellite Earth,” helium added.

“More unsafe than Mexico City! Democrat cities are much unsafe than Mexico City, which is tally by transgression cartels,” Miller said.

His remarks came 2 weeks aft Trump said that the execution complaint successful Washington is “higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia, [and] Mexico City — immoderate of the places you perceive astir arsenic being the worst places connected Earth.”

The Guardian reported astatine the clip that “Mexico City’s homicide complaint successful 2024 was 10 per 100,000 residents, according to authorities figures, versus 27.5 per 100,000 for Washington DC.”

“Meanwhile Bogotá had a homicide complaint of 15.2 and Lima saw 7.7 per 100,000,” the paper said.

The per capita homicide rates successful 2024 successful Baltimore and Chicago, some of which are governed by the Democratic Party, were importantly higher than the execution complaint successful Mexico City past year, according to information published by the Reforma newspaper.

While transgression groups surely run successful Mexico City, Miller’s assertion that the Mexican superior is “run by transgression cartels” is not supported by evidence.

Sheinbaum: CDMX is ‘not what this idiosyncratic astir apt imagines’

Asked astir Miller’s remarks astatine her Tuesday greeting property conference, Sheinbaum said that she had asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Security to nonstop information connected homicides successful Mexico City to the White House official.

Miller is “probably” unaware of information showing that murders successful Mexico City person declined successful caller years, the president said.

“The simplification successful homicides successful Mexico City from 2018 to the existent day is astir 60%,” said Sheinbaum, who was politician of the superior betwixt 2018 and 2023.

“… Yes, determination are issues [in Mexico City] and they evidently person to beryllium addressed … but it’s not what this idiosyncratic astir apt imagines,” she said.

“It’s important for him to cognize what has been done successful Mexico City,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the information initiatives implemented during her mayorship arsenic good arsenic that of existent Mayor Clara Brugada, who has a program to marque the superior “the astir heavy monitored metropolis successful the Americas.”

“In summation to quality tasks, probe and [security] collaboration with the authorities of Mexico, … [Brugada] is reinforcing the information quadrants,” she said, referring to an inaugural that divides the metropolis into hundreds of tiny information zones oregon quadrants, each with dedicated constabulary patrols.

“… There is precise important enactment to be to information [problems] successful the city,” Sheinbaum said.

“The cognition of information [among residents of Mexico City] has accrued a lot, oregon the cognition of insecurity has decreased. So, it’s worthy getting [this accusation to Miller],” she said.

Sheinbaum besides said that Miller is astir apt unaware that a “significant number” of U.S. citizens unrecorded successful Mexico City.

“So we person to get the accusation to him truthful that helium knows that determination is precise bully enactment to be to insecurity successful Mexico City,” she said.

With reports from Reforma and Milenio