MEXICO’S TOP DIPLOMAT TO VISIT CALIFORNIA

Mexico’s top diplomat will make a two-day visit to immigrant-friendly California amid strained relations between his country and the USA over President Trump’s border wall and immigration and trade proposals.

Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray is expected to meet Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislative leaders in California’s capital. He will later head to Los Angeles to announce support for young immigrants whose protection from deportation is being terminated by Trump and to meet with business and community leaders. He also plans a trip to Washington later in the week, officials at the Los Angeles consulate said.

In the past few weeks, Trump has stepped up efforts to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and moved to end the program that let 800,000 immigrants — three-quarters of them Mexican — work in the country even though they lack immigration status.