Mexico drops diplomatic notes to sue ICE over 17 deaths
Diplomacy is fine, but Claudia Sheinbaum decided actual lawsuits get better results.
Sending sternly worded diplomatic notes was clearly getting Mexico nowhere. So President Claudia Sheinbaum is taking the fight straight into American courtrooms, dragging ICE and its private prison contractors into criminal and civil court over 17 citizens who died in custody or during raids.
The cases aren't just minor technicalities either. One man was shot dead in Houston after federal agents mistook him for someone entirely different from another country. Fourteen others died while sitting in private and government-run detention centers.
Instead of just asking politely for an investigation, Mexico is hitting both federal prosecutors and the private corporations running these facilities where it actually hurts. Apparently, trade deals and border security talks will continue as usual, but the polite silence is officially over.
Suing another nation’s law enforcement agency inside its own legal system is certainly one way to handle border diplomacy.
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