▲ The action plan to support the 4.8 million Mexicans living in the United States without documents includes a call center to make complaints, said Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente during the morning.Photo Presidency
Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 28, 2024, p. 3
Given the threats of the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, to carry out mass deportations, starting in January the Mexican government will enable an emergency button so that countrymen at imminent risk of detention can notify the consulate closest to their location.
This tool is part of the actions with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) seeks to defend the 4.8 million undocumented Mexicans living in the United States, through the 53 consulates in that country, reported yesterday the head of the agency, Juan Ramón. de la Fuente, in the morning conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
He said that there is also a call center for complaints and that 329 new legal advisors were hired in labor, civil, criminal, immigration and administrative matters to protect compatriots.
In the morning held at the National Palace, he also announced the holding of a summit of Latin American foreign ministers to address the challenges of migration. Most countries are on the same channel
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He explained that the president ordered the SRE to maintain direct contact with Mexican communities abroad, work that has already begun
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He highlighted that as part of this defense there is also the Know and exercise your rights program, for prevention and rapid response to possible arrests or other intimidating actions.
The chancellor was emphatic in pointing out that to expel someone from the United States a court order and a final ruling of deportation or removal is needed, and that is where the consular team will be very attentive to ensuring that due process is complied with.
In the neighboring country there are 38.4 million Mexicans, of which 11.5 are first generation and 26.9 million are second or subsequent, according to De la Fuente, who highlighted that the contribution of migrants of Mexican origin to the US economy increases. to 27.7 trillion dollars, equivalent to 8 percent of GDP.
He explained that according to figures from two years ago from authorities of the neighboring nation, it is estimated that countrymen without documentation paid around 42.6 billion dollars in taxes, while the entire Mexican community contributed 121.5 billion dollars to the treasury.
The head of the Digital Transformation Agency, José Peña Merino, announced that through the portal www.miconsulado.sre.gob.mx A virtual single window was activated for consular procedures, so that compatriots can remotely carry out nine procedures with simplified requirements, such as correcting birth certificates. In the coming months, the platform will allow up to 52 procedures to be carried out before the Mexican authorities
Sheinbaum added that his government considers that the United States should repatriate migrants without documents to their countries of origin, but he noted that Mexico is analyzing measures in case they are sent to Mexican soil.
The president presented some video messages from Mexicans living abroad, in which they showed support for her government. In one of them, Sergio Arau, director of the film A day without Mexicansannounced that together with his wife, Yareli Arizmendi, he is working on the second part of this feature film, so he asked all migrants to send their anecdotes and stories to the email [email protected] to answer the question: what would the United States do without Mexicans?
