President Sheinbaum announces Mexico’s strongest response yet to deaths in ICE custody and during US immigration enforcement operations.The government of Mexico has said it will ask United States prosecutors to open criminal investigations into the deaths of its citizens during immigration enforcement operations.At her Thursday morning news conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico “cannot turn a blind eye to the Mexicans who have died”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“We made the decision — obviously, we will maintain diplomatic relations — to file a formal complaint with both state and federal prosecutors in the United States against whoever is found responsible for what we consider to be homicides or, in other cases, for human rights violations,” Sheinbaum said.Her remarks signalled that Mexico is prepared to issue its strongest response yet to the growing number of fatalities linked to US President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown.The move comes two days after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 52-year-old Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an immigration operation in Houston.According to Mexico’s government, 14 Mexican nationals have died while in ICE custody, and three others have been killed during immigration enforcement operations.Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco explained that Mexico had issued diplomatic notes in protest of the killings, but repeated attempts to engage with US authorities had failed.“We are going to move beyond the diplomatic sphere and go directly to US prosecutors to file complaints regarding these incidents, requesting that they are investigated as criminal matters,” he told reporters. Advertisement Velasco added that Mexico als …
