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Is Mexico Prepared for Trump's Promised Massive Deportation? Evaluating the Response and Readiness
Discover whether Mexico is ready to handle the potential impact of Donald Trump's plan for massive deportations. Explore Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's proposed measures and strategies to navigate the situation effectively.
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Donald Trump has promised the largest massive deportation of immigrants in the history of the United States.
His idea is to deport at least 1 million people a year.
It is twice as much as the year of the most deportations in the history of the United States,
which was 2012 with Barack Obama in the presidency.
That makes the attention necessarily turn to Mexico, not only because it is its neighbor,
but because we are talking about the majority of immigrants in the United States,
where it is estimated that about 45 million foreigners live, of which 11 are Mexican,
and where 11 million undocumented people live, of which 4 are Mexican.
But is Mexico prepared for Trump's plan?
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a series of measures to address
the possible effects of a new Trump term.
And as for migration, there is a strategy in two senses.
On the one hand, Mexico hopes to strengthen the 53 consulates it has in the United States,
one of the largest consular networks in the world.
In these headquarters of the federal government in the United States, training was launched for civil servants,
a single window was opened for consultations and talks and meetings with the community were held.
In addition, a cell phone application called the Alert Button was created,
with which Mexicans in danger of being deported will be able to notify the closest consulate and the chancellery.
On the other hand, Shane Baum has always said that migration must be contained
in a multilateral way between the international community,
addressing the problems of poverty and violence that generate it.
And in that sense, Shane Baum hopes to collaborate with countries such as
Honduras, Colombia or Ecuador.
We are not in favor of these deportations,
but if they happen, because not everything depends on what we decide,
We are going to receive Mexicans who come to our country and we are going to request the United States
that as far as possible, migrants who are not from Mexico can take them to their countries of origin.
In addition to these announcements, the president has continued with a policy that comes from years ago,
to reinforce border security.
Since Trump won the elections, at least seven migrant caravans leaving the southern border
have been dissolved by the army, the main one in charge of border control in Mexico.
Historically, Mexico's migration policy has been more focused on containment than on the reception of migrants,
and this has been done by the army rather than with specialized units on the subject.
The result, for years, according to humanitarian organizations, has been the systematic violation of human rights
and that many of the returned migrants want to cross to the United States almost immediately.
It must be understood that Mexico's migration policy is subjected to its relationship with the United States.
In the last two years, the number of migrant detentions in Mexico has doubled,
and with that, many migrants have been pouring in from southern states of Mexico.
According to officials from humanitarian organizations consulted by BBC Mundo,
most of the shelters for refugees on the border are already at their limit of occupation.
And in that aspect, that of migratory control, experts are beginning to show concerns.
For Guadalupe González, a Mexican analyst, there are issues for which the country is not prepared for what may come.
The key is how to go from the containment of immigrants to the reception and integration.
It is not that Mexico is an anti-immigrant country. In fact, it has always been a country of transit of people.
Arab, European or Latin influences are seen in every corner of these cities.
his celebrated and fraternal asylum policy made him the head of political, artistic and international philosophical thought in the 20th century.
But that tradition, according to experts, does not translate into a robust policy of receiving migrants.
And it is that, as Margarita Núñez, anthropologist and coordinator of the Migration Affairs Program of the American University of Mexico, said at BBC Mundo,
the country's migration policy has always been oriented towards containment, not reception,
which is what would be expected after a massive deportation like the one promised by Trump.
