Official: Mexico rejected US plan on 3rd-country deportees

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AP Mexico City
Last Updated : Feb 24 2017 | 10:32 PM IST
The Mexican interior secretary says his government made clear to visiting US emissaries that Mexico will not accept deportees from third countries under any circumstances.
Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said in an interview today with Radio Formula that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly asked Mexican officials during their visit yesterday if they would host deportees from other countries while their immigration cases are processed in the US.
Osorio Chong says the Mexican government replied it would not.
The interior secretary also said that if the US government tries to pressure Mexico by threatening to withdraw funding from the nearly USD 2.5 billion Merida Initiative to fight organised crime, Mexico will let that money go.

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First Published: Feb 24 2017 | 10:32 PM IST

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