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Mexico president: migrants not criminal
The Mercury
|June 10, 2025
MEXICO President Claudia Sheinbaum, pictured, at the weekend defended migrants living in the US after immigration raids carried out by the Trump administration in Los Angeles in which she said 35 Mexicans were detained.
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"Mexicans living in the US are good men and women, honest people who went
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