Mexico president dismisses US claim of cartel bounties on immigration officials

President Claudia Sheinbaim: ‘We are requesting information but there is none. We learned of this, just like you, via [the DHS’s] publication.’ Photograph: Mario Guzman/EPA

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has said her government has “no information” regarding claims by the Trump administration that Mexican cartels are offering bounties for US immigration officials.

“We are requesting information but there is none,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Wednesday. “We learned of this, just like you, via [the Department of Homeland Security’s] publication.”