The Government of Mexico will launch an ‘alert button’ in January for Mexicans in the United States to warn the consulates of an arrest or deportation, given the promises of the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
The Mexican Foreign Minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuerte, announced this Friday at the Government’s morning conference the operation of “an alert button that has already been put into practice on a small scale in some places and seems to be working very well.”
“You press an alert button, this sends a signal to the nearest consulate and the family members that you have previously preloaded in that application, and of course, to the Foreign Ministry in Mexico. So this would allow us to be alert,” he described in the National Palace.
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The mechanism, which hopes to be operational before Trump’s inauguration on January 20, is part of the actions of the Government of Mexico in the face of the mass deportations that the elected president has promised.
These expulsions are worrying in the country because there are 4.8 million undocumented Mexicans in the United States, according to De la Fuente, so they are close to half of the total 11 million and their remittances represent almost 4% of the domestic product. gross (GDP) of Mexico.
“In order to serve our countrymen and women, Mexico has the largest consular network in the world in a single country, that is, no other country in the world has as many consulates in another country as Mexico has in the United States, there are 53 consulates. ”, commented the diplomatic chief.
De la Fuente stated that there is the External Legal Advisory Program (PALE), which was strengthened with the hiring of 329 advisors to which “many other consultants, offices, lawyers have been added, many of them of Mexican origin, of voluntarily.”
“Of course, we are going to have a greater presence in prisons and processing and detention centers. I have already visited several, the consuls are trained, we have to maintain continuous interaction with the officers, both from the ICE agency (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service) and the CBP agency (Customs and Border Control),” he said. .
In the United States there are a total of 38.4 million Mexicans, of which 11.5 million are first-generation migrants, including undocumented ones, according to the Government of Mexico.
The chancellor defended the economic contribution of Mexicans in the United States, which amounts to 8% of the US gross domestic product (GDP), according to what he stated.
With information from EFE
