Sheinbaum addresses case of Mexican deported to Africa by US: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum noted astatine the commencement of her Thursday greeting property league that she postponed its commencement to 8:30 a.m. due to the fact that she had an “early call” with United States President Donald Trump.

“We’re continuing to speech astir commercialized issues, … we’re inactive negotiating,” she said, referring to Mexico’s efforts to triumph alleviation from U.S. tariffs, including duties connected vehicles, alloy and aluminum.

Sheinbaum said determination is simply a “good relationship” and “good communication” betwixt the Mexican and U.S. governments, and mentioned that Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard volition question to Washington D.C. connected Friday for much talks.

“We’re moving to trim the tariffs adjacent more,” said the president, who has present spoken to Trump by telephone connected 7 antithetic occasions.

‘We’re going to support moving truthful determination is nary taxation connected remittances’

Sheinbaum noted that the United States House of Representatives approved connected Thursday greeting Trump’s large fund measure — the alleged “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

The bill, which volition present beryllium considered by the U.S. Senate, includes a projected 3.5% taxation connected remittances sent retired of the United States by non-citizen immigrants. An earlier mentation of the measure projected a higher 5% taxation connected remittances, which travel into Mexico successful their tens of billions of dollars annually from the United States.

The reconciliation measure passed overnight by the House INCLUDES a 3.5% taxation connected remittances by radical successful the US sent overseas — down from the archetypal 5% proposal. https://t.co/noP7LycIhu

— Eric Martin (@EMPosts) May 22, 2025

“The taxation complaint connected remittances was reduced from 5% to 3.5%,” Sheinbaum noted.

“In immoderate case, we don’t privation determination to beryllium a tax,” she said.

“So we’re going to support working, … we’re going to support moving truthful determination is nary taxation connected the remittances our compatriots nonstop to their families successful Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexican authorities officials and lawmakers person been lobbying U.S. legislators to destruct the projected tax.

Sheinbaum — who has described a taxation connected remittances arsenic “unconstitutional successful the United States due to the fact that a treble taxation would beryllium charged” — said past week that Mexico would bash “everything that is necessary” to guarantee the projected taxation doesn’t go law.

On Thursday, she said:

“We’re going to proceed speaking with Republican and Democrat senators, … explaining wherefore it’s not bully for determination to beryllium a taxation connected remittances.”

Sheinbaum said that she didn’t sermon the projected remittances taxation with Trump, but stressed determination volition beryllium “other calls” with the U.S. president.

Sheinbaum: Trump medication ‘perhaps’ archetypal US authorities to admit arms trafficking problem

Sheinbaum said it was “very important” that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged connected Wednesday that Mexican cartels usage firearms manufactured successful the U.S.

The president noted that she raised the contented of arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico during her precise archetypal speech with Trump, which came 2 days aft the U.S. president’s predetermination triumph past November.

Rubio says Mexico is much cooperative ‘than ever before’ successful cartel crackdown, aims to halt travel of arms south

Since Trump began his 2nd term, the U.S. authorities has made “several seizures of weapons,” she said.

“… The Trump medication is, perhaps, the archetypal [U.S. government] that successful effect acknowledges determination is trafficking of weapons from the United States to Mexico and wants to combat it,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico ‘reviewing’ lawsuit of Mexican deported to Africa by US 

Sheinbaum noted that a “Mexican national who was detained successful the United States” was deported by the U.S. government.

She was referring to Jesus Muñoz Gutiérrez, who was arrested earlier this month, “convicted of second-degree murder” and “sentenced to beingness confinement,” according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The United States intended to deport Muñoz and 7 different men — “some of the astir barbaric, convulsive individuals illegally successful the United States,” according to the DHS — to South Sudan, but they lone made it arsenic acold arsenic Djibouti earlier a national U.S. justice ruled against their deportation to South Sudan.

“A Federal Judge successful Boston, who knew perfectly thing astir the situation, oregon thing else, has ordered that EIGHT of the astir convulsive criminals connected Earth curtail their travel to South Sudan, and alternatively stay successful Djibouti,” Trump wrote connected societal media.

“He would not let these monsters to proceed to their last destination. This is not the premise nether which I was elected President, which was to PROTECT our Nation,” Trump wrote.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities was not informed of the deportation of the Mexican man.

Jesus Muñoz Gutiérrez, a Mexican citizen, was deported to Africa by the U.S. authorities connected Wednesday on with 7 different men convicted of crimes successful the United States. (whitehouse.gov)

“If helium wants to beryllium repatriated, the United States would person to bring him to Mexico,” she said, adding that helium would “very probably” beryllium required to stay successful situation successful Mexico.

“The full lawsuit is being reviewed,” Sheinbaum said.

‘There is assurance successful investing successful our country’

Sheinbaum said that the “issue of tariffs” — chiefly a notation to Trump’s protectionist docket — has importantly changed the planetary economy.

However, “the economical indicators for Mexico are precise good,” she said.

Sheinbaum highlighted that overseas nonstop concern successful Mexico successful the archetypal 4th of the year, arsenic reported by Ebrard earlier successful the property conference, was higher than successful the aforesaid play past twelvemonth contempt planetary economical uncertainty.

“That means determination is assurance successful investing successful our country,” she said.

Government not readying to bolster information for officials 

In airy of the execution of 2 aides of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada connected Tuesday, a newsman asked the president whether her authorities would summation information for officials, including herself.

“No,” responded Sheinbaum. “We don’t program to.”

The president, similar her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a squad of assistants who assistance her successful information matters, but doesn’t person an existent information detail.

After a newsman suggested past period that she could beryllium susceptible to an assassination effort during her play tours erstwhile she gets up adjacent and idiosyncratic with supporters successful assorted parts of the country, Sheinbaum appeared unperturbed by the perceived, oregon real, hazard to her safety.

“One can’t determination distant from the people,” she said.

“The time we region ourselves from the radical is the time we halt being a authorities of the radical and for the people. So we’re going to stay adjacent [to the people], peculiarly connected weekends,” Sheinbaum said.

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