Policy Shift in Mexico Seen as Push for Sovereignty — Texas-Mexico border | The Texas Tribune

Security initiatives recently announced by the Mexican government suggest that the country may move to reaffirm its sovereignty and focus less on the interests of the U.S. and other foreign countries, a former assistant special agent at the Department of Homeland Security said.David Ramirez, who also worked in Texas as a U.S. Border Patrol agent and later as the director of investigations for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, said a government’s priority should be the safety of its people and stability, and Mexico is no different. “I am looking at it as someone who worked the border for 30 years,” he said. “As a country, Mexico has to take care of its people and say ‘I don’t have to please any other country but I have to please my citizens.’”