The president Claudia Sheinbaum reported that she sent a diplomatic note to prevent Mexicans from being held in the detention center located in the middle of the swamps of the immense Everglades wetland.PHOTO PRESIDENCY
Alma E. Muñoz and Emir Olivares
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, p. 4
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reported that at the arrest center known as Alcatraz de los Caimanes, In Florida, United States, There are 14 internships
and all efforts are made to be deported immediately.
He indicated that from the moment he met from that center A diplomatic note was sent, and from the Mexico Embassy in the United States and of consulates, it is insisting that (the countrymen) are integrated to Mexico, as quickly as possible
.
Given the complaints about the extreme conditions in which migrants are confined there, he said that Orlando and Miami consulates They are seeing if there are human rights violations
and if confirmed, it acts according to protocol. The Foreign Ministry will report if complaints have already been filed.
But what we have requested, insisted the president in the morning of the town, is that they are immediately sported
.
He recalled that when it was said that the US government would send migrants arrested to Guantanamo, “we sent a diplomatic note, and at the time they published that this center was (Alcatraz de los Caimanes), we send another, so that any Mexican is deported and does not have to spend time ”there.
Until now, he said, there are 14 boarded Mexicans and all efforts are being made so that they are immediately repatriated
. He did not clarify whether everyone continues in that prison or some was already deported.
He stressed that through the Consular Network the family of the migrant who lost his life in recent days is supported by the serious injuries he suffered when he tried to flee during a raids. In this type of case, families with lawyer organizations are supported, he said.
The president mentioned that A detained person can choose whether you want your immediate repatriation with consular support or with the lawyer you choose, or if you will request to remain in the United States
.
Mentioned that people with less time there They are less likely that their case is favorable
according to US laws.
The detention center was inaugurated by President Donald Trump the first of this month and is located in the middle of the swamps of the immense Everglades wetland.
Antier, the consul of Mexico in Orlando, Juan Sabines, said that the US authorities would have incurred the civil rights violations of the Mexican brothers Carlos and Alejandro González – one of them with a valid tourist visa – who were admitted to that place.
