Marco Rubio promised a “pragmatic foreign policy” to “stop mass migration” from Latin America to the United States
The new head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubiopromised a “pragmatic foreign policy” that in the case of Latin America will focus on “stopping mass migration” and “ensuring border security.”
To build a “more innovative, agile and focused” State Department, it plans to “replace some priorities, deprioritize some issues and eliminate some practices,” according to a statement published this Wednesday.
“We must stop mass migration and ensure the security of our borders“, he states, in line with the president’s top priority donald trumpwho in the first hours of his second term signed an avalanche of decrees, many of them to facilitate the expulsion or block access of migrants without visas.
“Our diplomatic relations with other countries, particularly in the Americas, will prioritize the security of the United States borders, stopping illegal and destabilizing migration, and negotiating the repatriation of illegal migrants,” he warned.
Trump promised the mass deportation of migrants in an irregular situation, but it remains to be seen if countries like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela they accept them and how many others will receive.
Rubio, the son of Cuban migrants and who speaks fluent Spanish, wants to leave behind the “focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad” to, according to him, “return to the fundamentals of diplomacy.” .
In this way, it plans to “carry out a pragmatic foreign policy in cooperation with other nations” for the good of the interests of the United States.
In general, he will follow what he calls Trump’s “avant-garde agenda.”
That happens by eliminating the themes of fight against global warmingwhich were essential for his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden and his head of diplomacy Anthony Blinken.
In this sense, Rubio specifies that the State Department will focus on Trump’s objective of “a return to American energy dominance”.
“We must take advantage of our strengths and get rid of climate policies that weaken the United States,” says Rubio, who nevertheless promises to support “sensible environmental protections.”
In his appearance in the Senate for his confirmation in office, Rubio affirmed that drug trafficking cartels control enormous areas of the border regions of the United States with Mexico and attacked Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
Among the decrees signed by Trump is the inclusion of Cuba on the black list of countries sponsoring terrorism, from which Biden had removed it days before ending his term.
Mexican day laborers detained while working began to be deported to Mexico while at various points on the border with the United States the construction of new spaces to house migrants and face the mass deportations announced by Donald Trump was accelerated.
About 70 deportees In what could be some of the first raids of the new US administration, they arrived in Tijuana in small groups over about three hours on Tuesday night, some dressed in work clothes carrying orange bags with their belongings.
As a man shouted from a distance to a small group of journalists, they were detained on Tuesday while they were working as day laborers in Denver, Colorado. Another migrant said he had been arrested in Oregon without giving further details.
The Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Wednesday that there were returns the day before and, without specifying, indicated that the numbers were lower than usual. In 2024, according to official data, more than 500 Mexicans were deported daily on average along the entire border. This month, through one point alone, Nogales, on the border with Arizona, about 150 were deported daily, according to data from the Kino Initiative shelters.
(With information from AFP and AP)
