He government of Mexico has announced a defense strategy for compatriots in order to prevent Mexicans residing in USA are left helpless in the face of a possible mass deportations.
Due to the constant threats of the Republican Donald Trump, It is projected that once protest the positionof the order. Given this, the Mexican government is preparing a legal defense plan, while specialists consider that an action such as the one intended by the American president, It is not viable.
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“For legal purposes, a mass deportation is not viable; but rather it is propaganda. A deportation has to be selective and case by case, since not all undocumented people are in a similar situation,” said the teacher. Salvador Guerrero Navarro, director of the Alaíde Foppa Legal Clinic from the Iberoamerican University.
He considered that the strengthening of the Mexican consulates in the US, which the president recently reported Claudia Sheinbaum, It should not be surprising, because Mexico is one of the countries that has “very good consular protection”; although he acknowledged that this time it is a Government proposal that is expected to be accompanied by resources.
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“One of the problems is that there is no budget that is sufficient. All consulates end up suffering a lot due to the issue of resources,” lamented the specialist, which is why he trusted that on this occasion sufficient resources will be granted to carry out the proposed strategy.
Furthermore, the expert in Human Rights condemned the use of migration as a bargaining chip, when in reality “it does not have to be a political negotiation, but rather the phenomenon would have to be addressed multilaterally, just as it is done with climate change, international terrorism or cybercrime”.
For his part, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramón De la Fuente, reported that all available resources will be deployed in the legal defense of compatriots, hand in hand with the lawyers of the PALE Program, with whom they have already hired 329 legal advisors.
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In addition to the resources that the Government promised for the hiring of lawyers, legal offices will also be called, including law schools and professionals who want to join to strengthen the legal defense strategy, which must take into consideration the framework international legal, as well as federal and state legislation.
Likewise, the Foreign Ministry issued recommendations to compatriots to take preventive measures; The aim is to ensure that Mexicans living in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are not affected. /Karina Aguilar