Mexico will not be forced to accept conditions regarding immigrants imposed by another country, President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday, just hours before he welcomed top U.S. Cabinet officials to Mexico City.<\/p>\n
\u201cMexico does not accept impositions of any country in the matter of migration,\u201d Pena Nieto said in an interview with local media outlet Impacto El Diario.<\/p>\n
His comments were in response to U.S. Department of Homeland Security memos Tuesday that said U.S. border agents would return undocumented immigrants to Mexico if they entered the United States from there, regardless of their country of origin..<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n The policy has drawn the ire of the Mexican government that was already angered by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s promise to build a wall along the U.S.\u2019s southern border and force Mexico to pay for it.<\/p>\n Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Videgaray said Wednesday that Mexico would not accept the new rules.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to say clearly and emphatically that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other,\u201d Videgaray told reporters, adding that he would not hesitate to raise the issue with global organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s be clear: Mexico and the government of Mexico will not hesitate to turn to multilateral organizations, beginning with the United Nations, to defend, in accordance with international law, human rights, freedoms and due process in favor of Mexicans abroad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security chief John Kelly arrived late Wednesday to hold meetings with a number of Mexican officials, including Pe\u00f1a Nieto.<\/p>\n Along with the new immigration policies and the border wall, meetings are expected to address Trump\u2019s promise to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n Nancy Caouette \/ Anadolu Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officials warns Mexico will take issue to UN to defend rights of citizens \/ Mexico Rejects US Imposition On Immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,34],"tags":[2058,6022],"class_list":["post-58604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-latin-america","tag-mexico","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}