The Mexican government said Wednesday it\u2019s taken several steps in response to the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals in ICE custody or during enforcement operations since May 2025.<\/p>\n
Mexico said it filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice over the 17 cases, requesting investigations into each. The Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. also filed similar requests with eight state attorneys general \u2013 in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas \u2013 as well as 12 county prosecutors where the deaths occurred.<\/p>\n
The ambassador also met with Department of Homeland Security and ICE officials last week to convey concerns about conditions inside detention facilities, the Mexican government said, and a Mexican official also wrote the United Nations to request the High Commissioner for Human Rights step in and issue recommendations to help prevent further deaths.<\/p>\n
The actions came after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denounced the deaths in the wake of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, by federal immigration agents in Houston earlier this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a case that outrages all Mexicans,\u201d Sheinbaum said in Spanish during a news conference on July 13, detailing the steps she planned to take. \u201cThis is not about creating conflict but neither can we \u2013 as the government and as Mexican people \u2013 say, \u2018We\u2019re not going to say anything because it might create problems in our relationship with President Trump\u2019s administration.\u2019\u201d
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\u201cAll Mexicans should say that violations of the human rights of Mexicans\u2014whether in Mexico or abroad\u2014must not happen,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Neither ICE nor the White House responded to questions about the Mexican government\u2019s actions. The California Attorney General\u2019s office said it can neither confirm nor deny any ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something that hurts the soul of Mexicans,\u201d said Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez de Castro, who runs UC San Diego\u2019s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies.<\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez de Castro said the relationship between the two nations is complicated and Sheinbaum is facing political pressure to act.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe she has to walk a fine line: exert enough pressure, to use her authority, without creating animosity, without creating a reaction in the U.S. government that becomes a politicized event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the U.S. State Department posted on social media that an official met with the Mexican ambassador and \u201creturned Mexico\u2019s letters that purport to direct the actions of U.S. Government personnel operating in U.S. sovereign territory\u2026 [and] recommended Mexico share its concerns via diplomatic channels as is customary,\u201d in what appeared to be a sort of admonishment.<\/p>\n
In response, the Mexican Embassy posted that the letter was a cease-and-desist directed to the private prison company that runs Adelanto ICE detention center in California and said the concerns have already been raised through official diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is that this administration, [the Trump] administration, they like to fight,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez de Castro said of the escalating tensions. \u201cSo I’m worried about that. Mexico has to be very smart on this and play very safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mexican government said Wednesday it\u2019s taken several steps in response to the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2871,14,2457,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-410560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-mexico","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}