Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday urged U.S. authorities to not conduct immigration enforcement concentrating on attendees of a Gold Cup soccer match in Los Angeles on Saturday, the place Mexico’s workforce is because of play the Dominican Republic.
Her feedback adopted latest raids by immigration authorities in Los Angeles concentrating on undocumented migrants, beneath insurance policies related to the President Donald Trump’s administration, which have sparked protests throughout main cities.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety, in a now-deleted publish to social media, had additionally promised to be “suited and booted” on the first spherical of Membership World Cup soccer matches, the curtain-raiser occasion for subsequent yr’s World Cup.
“We do not consider that at any soccer match there shall be any [immigration] motion … we name for none to be taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” Sheinbaum stated in her morning press convention.
Requested if she would nonetheless advise followers to attend Saturday’s match at SoFi Stadium, Sheinbaum famous that Mexican consulates within the U.S. have established protocols to help residents if detained.
In response to its social media publish, the CBP stated it repeatedly gives safety at huge sporting occasions.
“U.S. Customs and Border Safety is dedicated to working with our native and federal companions to make sure the FIFA Membership World Cup 25 is protected for everybody concerned, as we do with each main sporting occasion, together with the Tremendous Bowl. Our mission stays unchanged,” it informed The Related Press on Thursday.
Sheinbaum additionally addressed viral social media photos of demonstrators in Los Angeles holding Mexican flags, dismissing them as “potential provocations.”
“Mexico will all the time promote peace,” she stated, including that its nationals within the U.S. have been hardworking people who don’t search to incite violence.
Mexico will play its subsequent two Concacaf Gold Cup group stage matches in Arlington, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The match additionally options Central American nations with sizable migrant populations in the USA.
Data from Reuters and The Related Press was used on this report.