Mexico has said that it will request that criminal charges be filed in United States courts after more than a dozen of its citizens were killed by US immigration authorities or died in their custody.
On Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the requests were being formally lodged with US prosecutors, days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Mexican citizen Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a raid in Houston on July 7.
Salgado is the 17th Mexican national to have died during such raids or while held in the custody of immigration authorities since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year.
Sheinbaum emphasised that while Mexico was not seeking to create conflict with the US, it should not remain silent about the deaths of its citizens to preserve the country’s relationship with the Trump administration.
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