MEXICO CITY, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Mexican Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the United States contradicted its own immigration laws by deporting inoffensive undocumented migrants.
In a statement, the ministry said two recent cases "represent a violation of the express deportation rules (of the United States), as neither of the Mexican nationals posed a threat to the security of the U.S. and neither of them has a prior criminal record."
On Wednesday, U.S. border officials deported Maribel Trujillo, a mother of four young children living in Fairfield, Ohio, and in February, they expelled Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23, a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
U.S. President Donald Trump has spearheaded a crackdown on illegal immigrants and presented the new policy as targeting those with criminal records.
The ministry said it was "strengthening dialogue with U.S. authorities and assessing the possibility of turning to the appropriate judicial instances, to enforce the rule of law."
Trujillo, who was detained at her home in Fairfield on April 5, is the family breadwinner, the ministry said, adding U.S. officials should consider the consequences of separating her from her children.
Like many young undocumented migrants, whom DACA was designed to protect from such sudden deportations, Montes was taken to the United States at the age of nine.
