San Miguel de Allende, a city of 160,000 in the State of Guanajuato in Mexico’s Central Highlands, celebrated the 206th anniversary of Mexico’s Declaration of Independence from Spain, September 16, 2016, by officially declaring Donald Trump unwelcome.
San Miguel’s City Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring Trump “una persona no grata”. The justification is, Mexico stood up to tyrants 206 years ago, and San Miguel was the home of revolutionaries such as Ignacio Allende (whom the city is partially named after) and Ignacio “The Necromancer” Ramirez, who said, “the most sacred thing a man has is his honor and his country”.
This move is all the more remarkable because the Mayor and a slim majority of the City Council are members of the National Action Party (PAN), Mexico’s conservative pro-Catholic party.
San Miguel’s population includes about 15,000 immigrants, mostly from the United States and Canada.
Article by Antonieta Herrera in Periódico am (in Spanish): Declara San Miguel indeseable a Trump