just hours before the president s top diplomats meet with diplomats from mexico. the meetings will be part meet and greet and part fence-mending mission. they will likely be met with resistance from mexican authorities who have said clearly they re not just going to accept what the u.s. is pushing. maureen meyers is with me from the washington office of latin america, nice to have you here. thank you. let s begin with this. here is what luis videgaray, the foreign minister in mexico, had to say yesterday about one of the policies that is included in this new immigration crackdown here in the united states. translator: i want to make it clear in the most emphatic way that the mexican government and the mexican people do not have to accept measures that in a unilateral way one government wants to impose on another. we will not accept that because we don t have to, and it s not
the mexican government and social services at the border. the white house is pushing back, maureen, against this narrative that there is even tension between mexico and the united states, despite the fact that the mexican president cancelled his trip to meet with the president and despite the controversial tense phone calls between the two. here is how twhite house press secretary sean spicer put it yesterday. i think the relationship with mexico is phenomenal right now. there is a robust dialogue between our two nations. is phenomenal how you so he it? certainly not. we wouldn t view it as phenomenal, the mexican government wouldn t, and the mexican population who really feel humiliated by the trump administration, during the campaign, the anti-mexican rhetoric, the rhetoric about the wall, and the criticism from the president himself about mexico and their efforts to address security. the feeling from mexico is that the united states isn t recognizing their contributions to t