Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón issued a video statement Sunday announcing Mexico would take legal action under international law to protect Mexican citizens and Mexican-Americans in the United States. The statement comes the day after a gunman with an alleged anti-Hispanic/Mexican motive massacred shoppers in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 and wounding 26. The Mexican government said three Mexican were killed and six wounded in the attack on the border city.

Posición sobre la tragedia en El Paso Texas : pic.twitter.com/gIXuJcQJLy — Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) August 4, 2019

José Díaz-Briseño, a reporter with Reforma posted a summary of Ebrard’s statement in English, “JUST IN: Mexican Govt will file legal actions under ‘international law’ to demand protection of Mexican nationals & Mexican-American community in the US after El Paso’s shooting, per MX Foreign Minister”

⚡️JUST IN: Mexican Govt will file legal actions under ‘international law’ to demand protection of Mexican nationals & Mexican-American community in the US after El Paso’s shooting, per MX Foreign Minister https://t.co/4dHsnuKS21 — José Díaz-Briseño (@diazbriseno) August 4, 2019

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The AP reported Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said three Mexican citizens were killed and that Ebrard added six Mexicans were wounded in the attack.