Latest news with #Sheinbaum
Hans India
4 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Mexican govt reiterates protection for nationals amid US immigration raids
Mexico City: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that her government will protect the country's migrants in the United States, where a series of immigration raids have resulted in the arrest of 252 Mexican nationals. "Our solidarity, our support, and everything within our reach -- we will do everything to protect our migrant brothers and sisters," said the president during her daily press conference on Friday (local time). Sheinbaum also noted that Mexican consulates in the United States have been instructed to visit, at least once a day, the detention centres of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, as part of a strategy to strengthen the protection of Mexican migrants, reports Xinhua news agency. She added that the consuls are required to hold a public hearing once a week "to listen and understand what is happening so they can take action." The president emphasised that her government will spare no effort or resources to protect migrants from threats or rights violations, and pledged that complaints and concerns raised by Mexicans abroad will be addressed without exception. Sheinbaum also condemned Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' proposal to build a new detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the wetlands in the south of the state. "Immigrants are not criminals," she said. Sheinbaum has been opposing the immigration raids in the United States, saying the measures were counterproductive to the US economy. Speaking about her meeting with visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, the president, earlier in June, said the two spoke about several issues, including crime, immigration, trade, and "the defence of our migrant brothers and sisters." "We oppose the use of raids to detain people working honestly in the United States," she added, noting the raids "would harm not only the people but the economy of the US." It was "a good meeting" that highlighted the importance of strengthening the relationship between the two countries and peoples, said Sheinbaum.
Miami Herald
a day ago
- Science
- Miami Herald
Mexico to investigate impacts of SpaceX Starship explosion
June 27 (UPI) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the nation is launching an investigation into the impacts of debris from debris that landed in the country after SpaceX rocket exploded in Texas. Sheinbaum said in a press conference Wednesday that there "is indeed contamination" and Mexico is launching a general review of the impact of the debris. SpaceX is denying that debris from the explosion of one of its rockets has damaged the environment in Mexico. "We are reviewing everything related to the launching of rockets that are very close to our border," Sheinbaum said, adding that Mexico would "file any necessary claims" if it found SpaceX violated international laws. The SpaceX Starship exploded on June 19 during a preflight procedure for its 10th test flight from Starbase, Texas, with previous flights also exploding in the air after launch and scattering material in the surrounding areas. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the time called the incident "just a scratch," as no one was injured, although Mexico alleges the explosion sent debris along the shoreline of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The company, however, denied the claims in a post on X on Thursday. "As previously stated, there are no hazards to the surrounding area," SpaceX said. "Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship, including toxicity analyses, confirm they pose no chemical, biological, or toxicological risks." Environmental activists have alleged that debris from the incident has caused a die-off of marine life, such as dolphins, sea turtles and fish, while residents of the city of Matamoros have ostensibly found canisters and metal pieces on the beaches there as well. The nonprofit environmental organization Conibio Global A.C. posted to its social media platform Monday that Sheinbaum responded to their complaint in regard to SpaceX debris and sent a crew of technicians, scientists and biologists among other specialists to investigate hunks of metal, rubber and plastic, as well as combustion tanks that purportedly fell from the Starship explosion into an area that includes the Río Bravo River. "Within the inspections they took samples of water from the river and the beach, soil, sand, burnt plants, among others," the post said, and also showed photos that allegedly show pieces of Starship wreckage and damage to trees. Another post from last week purportedly shows a large piece of Starship that fell into an area of communal farmland known as La Burrita. The group also posted video from Bagdad Beach in Matamoros that allegedly shows Starship pieces, one of which is clearly labeled "SpaceX." In the Thursday X post from SpaceX, the company says it has made attempts to recover debris from the explosion, and that it has "requested local and federal assistance from the government of Mexico in the recovery of anomaly related debris, offered resources and assistance in the clean-up, and have sought validation of SpaceX's right to conduct recovery operations." "SpaceX looks forward to working with the Mexican government and local authorities for the return of the debris as soon as possible," the post concluded. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
UPI
a day ago
- Science
- UPI
Mexico to investigate impacts of SpaceX Starship explosion
A SpaceX Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft at Starbase, Texas in May. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo June 27 (UPI) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the nation is launching an investigation into the impacts of debris from debris that landed in the country after SpaceX rocket exploded in Texas. Sheinbaum said in a press conference Wednesday that there "is indeed contamination" and Mexico is launching a general review of the impact of the debris. SpaceX is denying that debris from the explosion of one of its rockets has damaged the environment in Mexico. "We are reviewing everything related to the launching of rockets that are very close to our border," Sheinbaum said, adding that Mexico would "file any necessary claims" if it found SpaceX violated international laws. The SpaceX Starship exploded on June 19 during a preflight procedure for its 10th test flight from Starbase, Texas, with previous flights also exploding in the air after launch and scattering material in the surrounding areas. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the time called the incident "just a scratch," as no one was injured, although Mexico alleges the explosion sent debris along the shoreline of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The company, however, denied the claims in a post on X on Thursday. "As previously stated, there are no hazards to the surrounding area," SpaceX said. "Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship, including toxicity analyses, confirm they pose no chemical, biological, or toxicological risks." Environmental activists have alleged that debris from the incident has caused a die-off of marine life, such as dolphins, sea turtles and fish, while residents of the city of Matamoros have ostensibly found canisters and metal pieces on the beaches there as well. The nonprofit environmental organization Conibio Global A.C. posted to its social media platform Monday that Sheinbaum responded to their complaint in regard to SpaceX debris and sent a crew of technicians, scientists and biologists among other specialists to investigate hunks of metal, rubber and plastic, as well as combustion tanks that purportedly fell from the Starship explosion into an area that includes the Río Bravo River. "Within the inspections they took samples of water from the river and the beach, soil, sand, burnt plants, among others," the post said, and also showed photos that allegedly show pieces of Starship wreckage and damage to trees. Another post from last week purportedly shows a large piece of Starship that fell into an area of communal farmland known as La Burrita. The group also posted video from Bagdad Beach in Matamoros that allegedly shows Starship pieces, one of which is clearly labeled "SpaceX." In the Thursday X post from SpaceX, the company says it has made attempts to recover debris from the explosion, and that it has "requested local and federal assistance from the government of Mexico in the recovery of anomaly related debris, offered resources and assistance in the clean-up, and have sought validation of SpaceX's right to conduct recovery operations." "SpaceX looks forward to working with the Mexican government and local authorities for the return of the debris as soon as possible," the post concluded.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Why is Mexico threatening to sue Elon Musk over SpaceX debris?
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to sue Elon Musk's SpaceX over falling debris from a rocket launch across the border in the United States. SpaceX said its efforts to recover debris from Mexico had been hindered by 'trespassers'. Here is more about what is happening between Mexico and SpaceX. A SpaceX 'Starship' rocket, part of Musk's project to send humans to space, exploded in a giant fireball during a routine launch test in Texas on June 19. Starship rockets are 120 metres (400ft) tall and made primarily from stainless steel. The rocket, called the Starship 36, went through 'catastrophic failure and exploded' at the Starbase launch facility at 04:00 GMT, according to local Cameron County authorities. The facility is located at Starbase, formerly called Boca Chica Village, in Cameron County, Texas, close to the US-Mexico Wednesday this week, Sheinbaum told her morning news conference that 'there is indeed contamination' which has been detected in Mexico in the aftermath of the SpaceX explosion. She said Mexican officials are conducting a review of the environmental effect caused to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, a little more than 300km (190 miles) from Starbase. Tamaulipas governor, Americo Villarreal Anaya, said authorities were examining 'the internationally required distances are being respected in order to have these types of facilities, so that there is no risk to urban centres', according to a report in The New York Times. 'We are reviewing everything related to the launching of rockets that are very close to our border,' said Sheinbaum. She added that Mexico is currently trying to determine whether international laws had been violated so it can file 'the necessary lawsuits'. In an X post on Thursday, SpaceX claimed its attempts to recover the fallen debris from Mexican territory had been hindered. 'Despite SpaceX's attempts to recover the anomaly related debris, which is and remains the tangible property of SpaceX, these attempts have been hindered by unauthorised parties trespassing on private property,' the X account wrote. It did not clarify who these parties were or where they were 'trespassing'. SpaceX also said there were 'no hazards to the surrounding area' from the rocket debris. 'Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship, including toxicity analyses, confirm they pose no chemical, biological, or toxicological risks. 'We have requested local and federal assistance from the government of Mexico in the recovery,' it added. In May, the Federal Aviation Administration in the US granted SpaceX permission to increase the number of Starships it launches each year from five to 25. Later that month, a Starship prototype exploded over the Indian that, two Starships broke into pieces after launching from Texas during test flights in January and March. In January, airlines were forced to divert flights to avoid falling January this year, a red-hot 500kg (1,100lb) metallic object fell onto a village in Kenya's Makueni county, 115km (70 miles) southeast of Nairobi. The Kenyan space agency said the debris was a fragment of a space object. On Monday, March 3, the Australian Space Agency released an advisory that a Russian rocket making re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere was expected to fall into international waters off the southeast coast of Tasmania, causing a 'sonic boom'. However, the following day, the agency said it had 'monitored a space debris re-entry over the southeast coast of Tasmania' but was 'unaware of any reports or sightings of the debris'. The likelihood of space debris posing a danger to people, aircraft or the Earth, in general, is very low. However, recent studies show that the amount of space debris falling to the ground is on the rise. A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada, published in Scientific Reports in January 2025, found that uncontrolled re-entries of rocket bodies or space debris into the Earth are on the rise and may pose an increased risk of collision to aircraft. Another study, called The Space Environment Report, released by the European Space Agency (ESA) in March this year, found that at least three 'intact', human-made objects fall back onto the Earth every day. This is besides the several fragments of space debris that fall onto the Earth. NASA has warned that there are millions of pieces of space debris low in the Earth's orbit, but there are no international space laws about cleaning up this debris. Currently, individuals on the ground are not at a high risk of being hit and injured by space debris re-entering the Earth. The US nonprofit space corporation, Aerospace, estimates this risk to be less than a one-in-one-trillion chance.
&w=3840&q=100)
Business Standard
2 days ago
- Science
- Business Standard
SpaceX seeks return of debris, rejects Mexico's pollution complaint
Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that SpaceX's Starship rocket launches in Texas have polluted an area in Mexico with debris Bloomberg
