Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum said that Donald Trump’s decision to classify drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations won’t reduce crime, urging the new US president to work with her nation on security and drug prevention instead.

Mexico's President Sheinbaum says she will work with Trump on deportations, border issues and cartels, but laughs at his 'Gulf of America' order.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — that he can call it whatever he likes as long as its his country's territory.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that U.S. President Donald Trump's decree earlier this week that drug cartels based in the country are terrorist groups "won't help," adding her government is nonetheless preparing for its legal impacts.

Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of criminal gangs and drug cartels operating south of the Mexico border as “foreign terrorist organisations” – a first for a US president.