Néstor Jiménez
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, p. 5
Almost a month after the beginning of the government of the American president, Donald Trump, in the area of Baja California, cases of voluntary returns from nationals residing in the United States have begun to be reported. Academics warned that this trend will increase.
During a virtual forum organized by universities of that entity, researchers from the border region explained that the antimigrant narrative did not start with Trump, but they have now found the point of greatest radicalization
.
Hugo Méndez Fierros, a researcher at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California, explained that the occupation of shelters in the north of the country remains at 20 percent and the massive arrival of deportees has not been recorded, such as what The Republican threatened.
However, he pointed out that what attracts attention It is that from last week and what goes from this, shelter staff points out that nationals have begun to voluntarily leave the United States. That leads us to infer that the narrative that a symbolic border is being built through Trump’s speech has had an effect at first
.
▲ The White House spread a video in which fragments of the deportation process are observed. Emphasis is placed on the sound of the chains that are placed on feet and hands.Photogram photo taken from X
He predicted that in the following weeks the flow of people who leave the neighboring country will be intensified in fear of being imprisoned. He recalled that the US government announced a multimillionaire campaign to deter undocumented migrants to leave the country voluntarily.
He also explained that in recent studies carried out in educational institutes in the United States, the term has been created CRIMIGRATION
to encompass the criminalization of the migrant workforce, to whom it has stigmatized with labels such as Terrorists, invaders, parasites
as well as that they mean a Load for the system
. It is on the x (previously Twitter) platform, owned by Elon Musk, where these labels have intensified.
Trump’s immigration strategy has also generated a rebound effect
since Latin residents born in that country are beginning to demonstrate in the streets, which could affect economic matters in both countries, added Carlos González, director of Humanities and the Center of Excellence in Human and Social Development, of Cetys University.
