Mexico City declared an official protest to Washington. In the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico it is menacingly said that it is impossible to name migrants as animals, since it degrades their human dignity and harms relations between the two countries. "The statements of the American president are absolutely unacceptable, since they create a hostile climate for Mexicans in the United States," the newspaper quotes. RU "of Mexican diplomats. However, earlier US President Donald Trump had already stated that he was not going to apologize for his words and take them back. True, he tried to get out and noted that the animals did not name all migrants, but those who are part of criminal groups and commit crimes in the United States. To them, he promised to be ruthless: "These are animals. They come to our country, and we push them out, "CNN quoted the politician as saying on Thursday, May 17. - I called them animals. And I will repeat this, "- said Trump. The scandal broke out after Trump talked emotionally about illegal immigrants during the White House discussion of migration legislation: "Many people enter our country or want to penetrate. Some of them are very bad - not people, but animals. And we will throw them out of the country on a scale in which they have never done this before ". The words of the US President quickly spread in the media. The press service even had to defend Trump in front of journalists. The US president is not the first to use the words, for which he later has to make excuses. Earlier, he had already compared countries from where migrants go to the USA, with "dirty holes", and Syrian President Bashar Assad called "an animal".