Mexico plans to accept thousands of his exiled citizens from the United States is nothing less than ambitious. Plans are underway to build nine reception centers on the border – Parking Lot, Stadium and Warehouse Establishment – including mobile kitchen operated by the armed forces.
Details of the initiative – “Mexico hug you” – was published this week, though Mexican officials have been making it for the past few months, while Donald J. Trump has promised to explore the biggest expulsion of non -immovable immigrants in the United States
Almost every branch of the government – 34 federal agencies and 16 state governments – are expected to participate in any way: people are taking their home city, organizing supplies, providing medical services, pension and salary apprenticeship recently returned to social welfare programs. Listing Assad. , Including transfer of cash cards worth approximately $ 100.
Officials say they are discussing the contract to associate people with Mexican companies’ work.
At a press conference this week, Mexican Home Minister Rosa Aisella Rodriguez said, “We are ready to accept you on this border. “The repatriation is an opportunity to return home and re -match the family.”
Mexican President Claudia Shinboum has called the expected large -scale deportation a “unilateral step” and says he does not agree with them. But the most unauthorized citizens of the single as a country are living in the United States – a Estimated four million people 2022 – Mexico has felt forced to prepare himself.
The government’s plan focuses on Mexicans exiled from the United States, though the President indicates that the country can temporarily accept foreign exile.
Mexico is not alone in preparation: Guatemala, in the south, its neighbor who has a large nonth -based population in the United States, recently Has created a plan to exploit its own deportes.
Mexico’s Foreign Minister spoke to new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week over the phone about immigration and security, but Mexico and other countries in the region said they Trump has not been informed on behalf of the administration On his exile plan, in a specific absence, they shake them.
“Donald Trump’s return has again found Mexico to face these situations,” Sergio Luna said, “Sergio Luna, who works with the Monitoring Network of the immigrant Defense Organization, is a Mexican alliance of 23 shelters, immigrant houses and companies spread across the country.”
“We cannot respond to emergency situations with programs that may have the best purpose but are very low,” said Mr Luna. “What it looks like is that for decades, Mexico has benefited from Mexican immigrants through remittances, but it has taken this population to amazement.”
Further, the government has 100 buses to take the exiled back to their state, many of them escaped from those places to avoid violence and lack of opportunity.
Other experts thought that the Mexican government was ready to deal with the long -term trauma that could be exile and family separation.
“These people are about to return and their return will affect their mental health,” said Camellia Tigau, a migration researcher at the Mexico National Autonomous University.
Even with new facilities, existing shelters – often small and short funds – in the hope of crossing the US border, it may be difficult to serve a large number of people recently with the general population of migrants, asylum operators have said, although the number of immigrants has the number of immigrants. Have greatly dropped In recent months.
“We can’t prepare because we do not have financial resources,” Gabriela Hernandez, director of Kasa Tochan shelter in Mexico City, said that her team mostly depended on the grants of daily citizens. “So we think it is important. It’s like an earthquake. “
Other shelter operators in Mexico City have said that their government has not been given additional assistance.
The capital Mexico City will probably accept many returns. Studies show that, when deported, people often do not settle in their own city, but Relocate.
“This is a good thing that the Mexican government is planning for the initial reception,” said Claudia Masfarer, a immigration researcher who has studied the dynamics and influences of returning to Mexico from the United States to Mexico. Nevertheless, he added, “It is important to think about what will happen next months.”
Temistocles Vilanuva, the head of the humanitarian mobility in Mexico City, said in an interview that officials planned to build a new shelter and the capital’s power for immigrant and expelled accommodation – more than 1,300 to 3,000.
Those who work with migrants and exile are also concerned that Mexico and other countries in the region can be hindered if the Trump administration is trying to accept a large number of people. Stops distributing foreign aidAs Mr. Rubio said on Tuesday that it was starting to do so, after an executive order signed by Mr Trump on Monday.
“It can be converted into a crisis, or at least this humanitarian assistance can be a temporary weakness of the networks,” said Mr Luna.
The United States is The largest fund The United Nations International Organization for Migration, or IOM, for example, offers many services provided for immigrants and expelled, when they start from the sanitary supply kit when they move away from the exile.
The company, which is cooperating with the Mexico government “Mexico hugs you”, refused to comment.
In a cable sent On Tuesday, Mr. Rubio mentioned specially about immigration to foreign aid to employees of the State Department. In the past, such aid has also gone to the program to eliminate hunger, disease and wartime misery.
On his wire, Mr. Rubio said that “Mass immigration is the most consequences of our time” and the department will no longer take steps that “will make it easy or encouraged.”
Diplomacy, especially in the West Hemisphere, will prioritize “American borders,” he added.
Mrs. sheinbaum has Signal That Mexico could accept exile other than Mexican. He said, however, that His government had planned to return “voluntarily” Any non -Mexican citizens – including waiting for shelter in the United States – in their original country.
The question of who will pay them to pay them back, he said he was on the list of issues that he had planned to discuss with US government officials.
