Portrayal of Mexicans in the US as violent is false, Sheinbaum says: Friday’s mañanera recapped

The beingness of the Mexican emblem astatine protests successful Los Angeles and a societal media station by United States President Donald Trump were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Friday greeting property conference.

She besides considered the anticipation of migration agents detaining Mexicans astatine a shot lucifer successful L.A. connected Saturday.

The caller migration raids and protests successful California’s largest metropolis were a ascendant taxable astatine the president’s mañaneras this week. At her property conferences earlier this week, she condemned unit during the protests, responded to a assertion by U.S. Homeland Security Kristi Noem that she encouraged “violent protests” successful Los Angeles, and provided updates connected the fig of Mexicans who had been detained successful raids.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s last mañanera of the week.

Sheinbaum: Portrayal of Mexicans successful US arsenic convulsive is ‘false’

A newsman said that radical person claimed connected societal media that they were paid to be caller protests successful Los Angeles against migration raids and asked the president whether her authorities had immoderate applicable information.

“We judge that these images of the Mexican emblem successful convulsive acts, peculiarly this representation of a idiosyncratic with a Mexican emblem connected apical of a burning constabulary car, are a provocation,” Sheinbaum responded.

“It has each the quality of a provocation and of [wanting] to make a [bad] representation of Mexico,” she said.

The president was seemingly claiming that the idiosyncratic successful the aforesaid photograph had deliberately acceptable retired to represent Mexico and Mexicans — particularly those successful the United States — successful a atrocious light.

In contrast, Sheinbaum continued, Mexico is simply a “great nation” and Mexicans successful the U.S. are “hardworking men and women who person been determination for years.”

“They’ve raised their families there, they enactment successful the fields, successful the work industry, successful the factories,” she said.

“[They are] hardworking men and women of bully religion who ne'er question violence,” Sheinbaum said.

“There are a batch of studies that amusement that the percent of undocumented immigrants that perpetrate amerciable acts is minimal, compared to the amerciable acts committed by United States citizens,” she added.

Sheinbaum characterized Mexicans successful the U.S. arsenic hard workers playing a cardinal relation successful agriculture, manufacturing and the work industry. (Moises Ortega/Istock)

“So this representation they privation to beforehand of Mexicans successful the United States being convulsive is false. It’s a set-up, it’s a provocation,” Sheinbaum said.

The president subsequently reiterated her telephone for Mexicans successful the United States to protestation peacefully. She besides reiterated that her authorities is opposed to “these raids” carried retired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“We’re ever going to support Mexicans, but we indispensable beryllium precise wide that these convulsive actions are successful information a provocation. By who? We don’t know, but they’re an enactment of provocation,” Sheinbaum said.

President Trump claimed this week that “paid insurrectionists” oregon “paid troublemakers” had participated successful protests successful Los Angeles. He didn’t supply immoderate factual grounds to enactment his assertion.

Sheinbaum welcomes Trump’s assertion that ‘changes are coming’ successful US migration policy 

A newsman noted that Trump said connected societal media connected Thursday that helium intended to marque changes to his migration policy.

“Our large Farmers and radical successful the Hotel and Leisure concern person been stating that our precise assertive argumentation connected migration is taking precise good, agelong clip workers distant from them, with those jobs being astir intolerable to replace,” the U.S. president wrote connected Truth Social.

President Sheinbaum hailed Trump’s committedness of changes for U.S. migration argumentation arsenic a affirmative step. (White House/X)

“In galore cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We indispensable support our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!” Trump said.

The U.S. president went backmost to aged habits successful a consequent post, writing:

“I campaigned on, and received a Historic Mandate for, the largest Mass Deportation Program successful American History. Polling shows overwhelming Public Support for getting the Illegals out, and that is precisely what we volition do.”

Sheinbaum described Trump’s “changes are coming!” station arsenic “good,” but added that she hoped that helium would successful information enactment connected his words.

“… It’s bully that helium recognizes that Latino migrants and peculiarly Mexicans lend to the United States economy,” she said.

“California is the 4th oregon 5th largest system successful the world, and that’s acknowledgment to Mexicans, the millions of Mexicans who unrecorded there, who person a precise beardown Mexican individuality but besides a precise beardown U.S. individuality due to the fact that they raised their families there, they enactment determination each day, wage taxes and are precise integrated successful society,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum mentioned Redwood City successful the San Francisco Bay Area of an illustration of Mexico-U.S. ties. Roughly 25% of the city’s colonisation is of Mexican descent. (Visit Redwood City)

“… I lived successful the northbound of California for 4 years, I studied there, and determination are full towns that unrecorded from [the enactment of] Mexicans,” she said.

“More radical from Aguililla, Michoacán, unrecorded successful Redwood City successful the northbound of California than successful Aguililla, Michoacán, owed to the historical migration determination has been of full families,” Sheinbaum said.

Aguililla — which has been plagued by cartel unit successful caller years — and Redwood City are sister cities. “A fig of Redwood City residents person immigrated from oregon are descendants of immigrants of Aguililla, Michoacán, México,” according to the metropolis government.

Could ICE people Mexican shot fans successful LA?

A newsman asked Sheinbaum whether she would counsel Mexicans not to be Mexico’s opening lucifer of the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup owed to the anticipation that ICE volition transportation retired raids astatine oregon adjacent the SoFi Stadium successful Los Angeles. El Tri volition play the Dominican Republic astatine the stadium connected Saturday night.

Sheinbaum said that she didn’t deliberation ICE would people shot fans.

“Being a shot match, we don’t judge determination volition beryllium immoderate enactment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — we anticipation there’s not, we telephone connected determination not to be,” she said.

Los Angeles tv presumption KTLA reported that “human rights groups pass the existent clime could depress attendance” astatine some the Gold Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup successful the United States, “especially among Latino and migrant communities that person agelong formed the instauration of U.S. shot fandom.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])