Amid worries about a wall and deportations, Mexican officials expressed their concerns to two visiting U.S. Cabinet secretaries on Thursday.
"We do not agree on the different measures that recently were stated by the government of the United States that affect Mexico,” Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said.
"There exists among Mexicans worry and irritation about what are perceived to be policies that could be harmful for the national interest and for Mexicans here and abroad," Luis Videgaray Caso, the secretary of foreign affairs, said.
The comments were made amid their meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
Tillerson and Kelly appeared with their two Mexican counterparts before the media at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, but took no questions from reporters.
Tillerson, in his statement, said the U.S. and Mexico are "two strong foreign countries that, from time to time, will have differences," but that his talks were "productive and forward-looking."
Kelly emphasized there will be “no mass deportations” and "no use of military force" to round up undocumented migrants under President Donald Trump's enhanced crackdown on those illegally in the United States.
After Tillerson and Kelly arrived in the Mexican capital, Trump predicted it would be “a tough trip” for his two Cabinet members and added, “we are going to have a good relationship with Mexico and if we don't, we don't."
The two American emissaries also met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto before heading back home.