However, the INE had planned to install 60 modules, hire more staff and extend hours to credential citizens who are expelled from the United States, so that they have their identity document and have their rights guaranteed.
The lack of resources prevented the Institute from carrying out this special program of attention to Mexican migrants.
“A budget expansion is required. Given the resources, appropriate measures will be taken to care for the repatriated,” admitted counselor Arturo Castillo, in a session of the Federal Voter Registry Commission (RFE) of the INE.
“A few weeks ago I requested the Executive Secretariat and we also spoke with the executive management of the RFE about the need to implement a strategy or have a strategy ready to care for repatriated people, given the circumstances we are experiencing internationally,” he explained.
In the session, the executive director of the RFE, Alejandro Sosa Durán, reported on the first phase of this special operation dedicated to compatriots repatriated from the United States and so that they know their rights to request or replace a voting credential.
The Chamber of Deputies applied to the INE a budget cut of 13,476 million pesos and because the organization requires resources to organize the judicial election, it requested from the Ministry of Finance at least a budget increase of 1,511 million pesos.
Of them, 18.7 million pesos were to hire more personnel and install 60 credentialing modules at border points and face an eventual mass deportation of fellow citizens from United States territory.
So far the SHCP has not responded to the request for extra resources.
