The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, did not clarify whether the Government of Mexico would pay for these repatriations or the United States would do so. The Aztec country also reported on the “Mexico embraces you” program for its compatriots
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, assured this Tuesday, January 21, that her Government will return to their countries of origin the migrants stranded in Mexico affected by the new immigration restrictions of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
«We would look for mechanisms through migration policy and foreign policy to return to their countries of origin; For example, there are agreements with Guatemala, with practically all Central American countries, in fact there was a meeting last Friday for this, there is an agreement with Cuba,” he warned in his press conference.
The president promised “humanitarian attention” to migrants from other nations, particularly Latin America, who are in Mexico and who can no longer cross to the United States, but insisted that the new Trump Government must directly deport undocumented immigrants. to their places of origin and not to Mexican territory; reviewed EFE.
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The president did not clarify whether the Government of Mexico would pay for these repatriations or the United States would do so.
Sheinbaum referred, specifically, to the new decree of the Trump president that reinstates the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, in English), also called ‘Stay in Mexico’, which forces US asylum seekers to wait in Mexican territory .
The president argued that “rather than receiving” these migrants “because it is a decision of the United States and the MPP,” Mexico would give them “humanitarian attention.”
“Then the issue is, if these people are in Mexican territory, we serve them for humanitarian reasons, but within the framework of our immigration policy, we seek, as foreigners, their return to their country of origin,” he argued.
Also for those stranded in Mexico
Sheinbaum offered the same to migrants who were stranded in Mexico after Trump’s cancellation of Customs and Border Protection’s ‘CBP One’ application to request US asylum from Mexican territory.
The head of state reiterated that her government “is ready” for mass deportations, which would particularly affect Mexico, the country of origin of nearly half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and whose remittances represent almost 4% of the Mexican gross domestic product (GDP).
“Mexico embraces you”
The government of Mexico also announced this Tuesday a strategy with which it seeks to alleviate the effects of the new immigration policy of the United States: the “Mexico embraces you” program, a plan that will welcome its nationals and assist them with an economic bonus after being deported. .
“Faced with the repatriation of Mexicans who are in the United States, the government has the strategy to provide adequate reception and give them certainty of opportunities for a dignified life in their native country,” said this morning the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
Mexican people who are “repatriated” from the United States will be given a card with an equivalent of 2,000 Mexican pesos (about 100 US dollars), and they will be provided with food and transportation to reach their corresponding states, according to the government.
Likewise, they will be given assistance and we will seek to socially reintegrate them through job offers; detailed VOA.
The Mexican government indicated that the program will have the support of the United Nations, which will work in coordination with a series of consulates in the United States.
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