Mexico Considering Legal Action Against ICE Over Migrant's Death
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that her administration is considering filing a formal complaint in U.S. courts over immigration raids in the United States.
It comes after a Mexican national without legal status in the U.S. died ater he fell from a building roof while attempting to flee an immigration operation in California.
Jaime Alanis Garcia, a cannabis farmworker who was injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in Southern California, died Saturday, according to his family. His death came days after he fell about 30 feet during a raid by federal immigration agents at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California.
"The family is being supported, the family is being contacted and we are also looking at the possibility of reporting there because it is unacceptable, it is being reviewed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday.
Sheinbaum added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is reviewing the legal avenues for filing the complaint.
"The possibility of denouncing there is being seen because it is unacceptable (...) There cannot be another case like these and that is why the complaint has to be filed in the courts there," she said.
Sheinbaum also said that 1,427 people have been deported to Mexico since immigration raids ramped up in the United States after Trump returned to the White House.
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