Reuters

MEXICO CITY
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 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of his former Ambassador to Mexico, Christopher Landau, to be Deputy Secretary of State.

«That’s good. Ambassador Landau did a good job in Mexico from my point of view,» Sheinbaum said, adding that she got to know him when she was Mexico City mayor.

«He knows our country really well.»

Trump nominate his former Ambassador to Mexico, Christopher Landau, to be Deputy Secretary of State.

President Donald Trump will nominate a Washington attorney, Christopher Landau, to be the next United States Ambassador to Mexico, the White House Press Office said on Monday. Mr. Landau served as Mr. Trump’s ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021, when he left after Mr. Trump lost his re-election bid to President Biden. 

The nomination comes at a time of strained relations between the neighbors amid trade disputes, Trump’s complaints about undocumented immigrants crossing the border, and his efforts to build an extended border wall.

Landau, now a partner at the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, and then for Justice Clarence Thomas, both considered court conservatives.

The White House described Landau as a constitutional and appellate attorney who has briefed and argued appeals before the Supreme Court, Federal courts of appeals, and State appellate courts.

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