Sheinbaum responds to US border militarization: Friday’s mañanera recapped

The subject build-up connected the United States’ confederate border, a arguable remark by a Michoacán politician and a erstwhile president’s absorption to the upcoming judicial elections were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Friday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s May 23 mañanera.

Sheinbaum responds to United States’ militarization of its confederate border 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir a United States Embassy societal media station successful which it said that the U.S. authorities “has designated definite areas of the confederate borderline of the United States arsenic areas of nationalist defense.”

In keeping with that, the U.S. Northern Command said connected Thursday that “1,115 work members were approved to deploy to the Southern Border” arsenic portion of the U.S. Department of Defense’s “continued whole-of-government attack to summation afloat operational power of the confederate border.”

Thousands of active-duty U.S. troops person already been deployed to the United States’ borderline with Mexico arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to halt the introduction of drugs, and migrants betwixt authoritative ports of entry.

Sheinbaum said connected Friday that the United States has “the close to bash successful their state what they determine.”

US deploys implicit 1,000 further troops to borderline with Mexico

“We besides person the close to accidental we don’t agree,” she added.

Sheinbaum went connected to accidental that “from the archetypal moment” that the United States “increased the subject beingness connected the confederate borderline of their country, we sent a note.”

She was referring to a diplomatic enactment her authorities sent to its U.S. counterpart successful April aft United States Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced “the exigency withdrawal and transfer” to the U.S. Army “of administrative jurisdiction implicit astir 109,651 acres of national onshore on the U.S.-Mexico border.”

In that note, Sheinbaum said connected April 16, the Mexican authorities acknowledged that what the U.S. does “in its ain territory” is “a determination for them,” but besides expressed its anticipation that U.S. subject actions wouldn’t “cross the border” and that determination would proceed to beryllium “the aforesaid collaboration determination has been until present successful information matters.”

On Friday, the president said the diplomatic enactment acceptable retired that Mexico respects what the United States does “in their country,” but besides advised the U.S. to “always retrieve territorial sovereignty.”

She has said connected repeated occasions that Mexico volition ne'er judge immoderate benignant of U.S. involution successful Mexican territory.

Sheinbaum cautioned the U.S. against letting subject enactment on the planetary borderline transverse into Mexican territory. (Omar Martínez/Cuartoscuro)

On Friday, Sheinbaum stressed that “people don’t migrate for pleasure,” but alternatively retired of “necessity.”

“We’re ever going to accidental that the champion mode to code migration is with practice for development, supporting the communities from which radical migrate retired of need,” she said.

“… That volition ever beryllium our presumption … but they’ve taken the determination to enactment much subject beingness connected their borderline to debar migration. We judge that the predisposition should beryllium different,” Sheinbaum said.

Mayor who called for constabulary to usage lethal unit against equipped criminals is ‘wrong,’ says Sheinbaum 

A newsman asked the president her sentiment connected a declaration by the politician of Uruapan, Michoacán, that municipal constabulary should “shoot down” equipped criminals.

Mayor Carlos Manzo made the declaration this week aft a municipal employee, identified arsenic Adriana Cerca, was changeable dormant extracurricular a schoolhouse successful Uruapan.

“If you spot they are shooting, you person to sprout them down. If they are attacking citizens, you person to sprout them down. No information should beryllium fixed to these scum of society,” Manzo said.

#Michoacán🔴Tras as3sin4t0 de empleada del Ayuntamiento de #Uruapan, alcalde ordena uso de fuerza letal contra delincuentes
Presidente municipal Carlos Manzo instruyó a los policías a abatir a cualquier agresor 4rm4d0 que represente un riesgo para la ciudadanía @MeganoticiasMx pic.twitter.com/Bm8PRECEVu

— MeganoticiasMorelia (@MN_Morelia) May 21, 2025

Sheinbaum said that the politician is “wrong” to clasp specified a view.

“Rule of law,” she said.

“In different words, for a idiosyncratic who commits a transgression determination is an accusatory transgression strategy successful Mexico. What determination has to beryllium is an probe oregon an apprehension in flagrante, and grounds to find whether a idiosyncratic is blameworthy oregon not,” Sheinbaum said.

The president said that what the politician had projected was to “go backmost to the warfare against the narco,” a notation to the militarized combat against cause cartels initiated by erstwhile president Felipe Calderón soon aft helium took bureau successful 2006.

“That had a outgo and continues to person a precise precocious outgo successful our country,” Sheinbaum said.

The president has pledged that her authorities won’t prosecute the benignant of militarized “war” against cartels that Calderón undertook, but her medication has ramped up enforcement against transgression organizations, starring to speculation that it has abandoned the “not bullets” portion of the “hugs, not bullet” information strategy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Sheinbaum: People person the close to protest, alternatively than vote, connected June 1

A newsman noted that erstwhile president Vicente Fox has called connected Mexicans to not ballot successful the judicial elections connected June 1, but alternatively protest.

On societal media successful caller days, Fox has railed against the judicial elections and the 2024 judicial betterment connected repeated occasions.

“My full beingness I’ve called [on people] to ballot but connected June 1 you won’t beryllium exercising your vote, you’ll beryllium legitimizing a farce,” helium wrote successful 1 station to X.

TODA MI VIDA HE LLAMADO A VOTAR…
PERO EL 1° DE JUNIO, NO ESTARÁS EJERCIENDO TU VOTO, ESTARÁS LEGITIMANDO UNA FARSA.
LOS JUECES NO OFRECEN PROPUESTAS, NO HACEN CAMPAÑA, NO DEBEN DEBER FAVORES ¡ESTO NO ES DEMOCRACIA, ES CONTROL ABSOLUTO! ¡DEFENDAMOS EL ESTADO DE DERECHO!

— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) May 16, 2025

Fox, president betwixt 2000 and 2006, said successful different station that “the judicial betterment is an authentic rotten apple.”

“Don’t wound it, don’t wound the hook,” helium wrote.

In yet different station earlier this week, Fox wrote:

“The predetermination of judges by fashionable ballot places astatine hazard judicial independency and the transparency of the system. We volition not let justness to beryllium politicized and go an hold of governmental interests.”In response, Sheinbaum said that “Mexico is free” and radical “can workout their close to protest.”

“They tin telephone connected radical to ‘not vote.’ That’s their right,” she said.

“… What bash we telephone [on radical to do]? To vote, to freely workout the close to vote, that’s what we’re calling for,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that connected June 2 past year, the Mexican radical didn’t conscionable ballot to elite a pistillate president, but besides for “constitutional changes.”

“… That was our slogan passim the full campaign, determination is nary surprise. The radical decided that the profound translation of our state should continue. And the radical volition travel retired and ballot [on June 1],” Sheinbaum said.

The president argues that the elections are indispensable to escaped the judiciary of ills specified arsenic corruption and nepotism.

There are a scope of concerns astir the fashionable predetermination of judges, including that the ruling Morena enactment volition effort to stack the courts with judges sympathetic to their cause.

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