Mexico’s president says an announcement of the US internal security secretary against illegal migration for months on Mexican television. The country can revive a revoked law in 2018 to wage foreign advertising.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced renovations on Monday to prohibit foreign publicity paid after an announcement published in the Mexican press of US internal security secretary Kristi Noem against illegal migration.
“Today or tomorrow will be sent [as medidas] Congress so that no foreign government or any entity of any foreign government can pay. The point is that they are paying to be able to publicize these ads, this propaganda, which has a discriminatory message, “said the president at a press conference.
The Mexican leader added that the announcement has been circulating on television for “a few months” and was shown over the weekend during football games, where Noem conveys a “message from President Donald Trump to the world: if they are thinking illegally entering the United States, or think about it.”
“I’ll be clear: if they come to our country and violate our laws, we will process them. The criminals are not welcome in the United States,” Kristi Noem said in the announcement.
Mexico can revive revoked law in 2014
Sheinbaum will thus try to revive a section of the Federal Telecommunications Law that was revoked in 2014, during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).
With this measure, foreign governments will not be able to pay traditional media or social networks to spread advertising in Mexico.
“Broadcasting and television concessionaires in the country will not be able to transmit political, ideological or commercial propaganda of foreign governments or entities, nor allow the media that operate in their concession to be used for purposes that can influence internal matters,” he said.
Claudia Sheinbaum said that the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (Conprad) Mexican sent a letter to the media to remove the announcement of Noem because “contains a discriminatory message, attentive against human dignity and can encourage acts of rejection or violence against” migrants.
“For this reason, we invite you to remove the spot, in order to comply with the construction of a society without discrimination, as established in our Constitution,” concluded the organism of the Ministry of Interior (Segob).
Noem’s message, which visited Mexico on March 28, reflects Trump’s growing pressure on the Mexican government to contain the flow of drugs and migrants.
