- Title: Mexicans hold protest against Trump outside US Embassy in Mexico City
- Date: 20th January 2025
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (JANUARY 20, 2025) (REUTERS) ANGEL OF INDEPENDENCE MONUMENT UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN CITY U.S. FLAG AT EMBASSY VARIOUS OF ACTIVIST HITTING PINATA REPRESENTING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP VARIOUS OF ANOTHER ACTIVIST HITTING PINATA REPRESENTING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ACTIVISTS SETTING PINATA ON FIRE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ACTIVIST OF THE BINATIONAL COALITION AG
- Embargoed: 3rd February 2025 22:31
- Keywords: Donald Trump Mexico Protest border embassy migration protests
- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: South America / Central America,North America,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001480320012025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Protesters burned a pinata of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City in protest of his new term and anti-immigrant policies on Monday (January 20).
Protesters gathered outside the embassy and beat up the pinata alluding to Donald Trump with a wooden stick to later set it on fire.
The protest criticized a series of sweeping executive orders announced during Trump's inauguration speech, which included the first steps in enacting a far-reaching agenda to expand America's territory and to curb immigration.
"We are not going to allow Donald Trump to militarize the border," said activist of the Binational Coalition Against Trump, Julia Klug.
Trump said he would declare a national emergency at the southern border with Mexico, dispatch troops there and resume a policy forcing asylum-seeking migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings - all a prelude to what he described as an unprecedented operation to deport millions of immigrants.
Shortly after the inauguration, U.S. border authorities said they had shut down a Biden program that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the U.S. legally by scheduling an appointment on an app. Existing appointments were canceled.
"Closing borders is a tremendous step backward in the evolution that was already happening," said protester Elia Vallejos.
The new president also vowed to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, a proposal that was rejected by the protesters at the site.
Donald Trump is the first president in more than a century to win a second term after losing the White House and the first felon to occupy the White House.
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