MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she had sent diplomatic notes to Washington over the deaths of two migrants in the U.S., a man shot by a federal immigration agent and a second one who died in hospital after being detained. Speaking in a morning press conference, Sheinbaum said a Mexican […]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she had sent diplomatic notes to Washington over the deaths of two migrants in the U.S., a man shot by a federal immigration agent and a second one who died in hospital after being detained.
Speaking in a morning press conference, Sheinbaum said a Mexican man had died in a U.S. hospital on Tuesday, adding this was “presumably the product of a detention.”
She did not share the man’s name.
“We sent a diplomatic note on this case asking all the investigations be carried out, and that if there is a responsibility of violation of human rights, that it be sanctioned,” Sheinbaum said.
She said had also sent another diplomatic note over the death of Silverio Villegas, a man from Michoacan state, who was fatally shot by an immigration enforcement agent in a Chicago suburb earlier this month.
Villegas was pulled over and eventually shot by an unidentified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on September 12, just after dropping off his two children at a nearby elementary school and daycare center.
(Reporting by Sarah Morland and Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)