‘Phenomenal right now’: How the White House sees US-Mexico relations

Last month, Peña Nieto renounced an executive order from Trump that directed federal agencies to prepare to build a large security wall along the U.S. -Mexico border.

The only consensus so far in Mexico about the new policies of President Donald Trump is that the country isn’t remotely prepared.

The talks came weeks after Trump and the Mexican president spoke by phone on January 27, following the USA president’s inauguration.

“We are not going to accept [the policy] because we don’t have to accept it and because it is not in the interests of Mexico”, Videgaray added. It’s when a Big Ten school plays a small college in preseason and wins by 40 points. He was also joined by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. Under previous policy, migrants from other countries who entered the United States illegally through Mexico were deported back to their homelands.

It led to a level of hostility between the normally reliable southern ally not seen in decades.

This is not the first time placatory messages carried by members of Trump’s cabinet have been undermined by contradictory signals emanating from the White House.

The two nations have long seen the issue of immigration as a sovereign issue.

The visit by Tillerson and Kelly forms part of a Trump administration trend: top Cabinet and other officials seeking to calm nervous nations that their USA partnerships are secure in the new era of “America First”.

Mexico’s foreign minister told Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly that his country has “concerns” about Mexicans living in the U.S. as Washington ramps up its deportation policies.

“We’re going to have a good relationship with Mexico, I hope”. “I think they would echo that same sentiment”, Spicer said.

There was no official response from the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Videgaray’s reported remarks.

Tillerson and Kelly were scheduled to meet with Videgaray and Mexico’s finance and interior ministers before a news conference scheduled for shortly after 1700 GMT.

“There will be no ― repeat, no ― use of military forces in immigration operations”.

Pena Nieto recently cancelled a trip to Washington over Trump’s insistence that Mexico pay for the wall.

Mexican officials repeatedly have rejected Trump’s demand that they foot the bill for his ordered southern border wall.

Central American migrants rest next to the train tracks at Arriaga in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas while waiting for the freight train “La Bestia”, or the Beast, to travel to north to the USA border, January 10, 2012.

But the political detente has not settled passions in either country.

Two of the US’ most senior officials have been given a frosty reception in Mexico due to a controversy brewing over the deportations of undocumented migrants.

People participate in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in New York City, on February 11, 2017.

The US government has said it is considering a plan to deport many undocumented migrants back to Mexico if that is where they entered the US, regardless of their nationality.

“The message from this White House and from the DHS is that those people who are in this country and pose a threat to our public safety or have committed a crime will be the first to go and we will be aggressively making sure that that occurs”, Spicer said. And the former Exxon CEO championed the many sources of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries – particularly with regards to “trade and energy”.

At the G-20 economic summit, however, Videgaray did not shy away from what is at stake in the upcoming negotiations.