Since the beginning of the president’s six-year term Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorthe Permanent Armed Forces established three anti-migrant belts in the country. According to the latest available report, 34,538 elements were allocated for containment, which for specialists represents a strategy to make it difficult the advance to the northern border.
According to the Second Semi-Annual Report of the Permanent Armed Forces in Public Security Tasks, the first of these belts is on the Sabancuy Line, between Campeche and Hidalgo City, Chiapas; the second on the virtual border between Tabasco and Arriaga, Chiapas; and the third on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, y Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.
So that throughout 1,500 kilometerslas Armed forces According to data from the Second Report, submitted to the Senate last February, 34,538 elements of the Armada from Mexico and state police, without specifying how many units of each body.
The Government indicated that, by presidential instruction, the “humanitarian rescues” began on June 12, 2019, when the Army and the Air Force implemented the Migration and Development Plan for the Northern and Southern Border, “in order to assist with the Migratory Flow Containment Strategy implemented by the National Institute of Migration”.
To this end, the Army established two coordination centers: the Suchiate Center under the command of the commander of the 36th Military Zone in Tapachula, Chiapas, and the Río Bravo Center under the command of the commander of the IV Military Region in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
This with the objective of coordinating “the operational actions on the routes of internment Center-South, South-Southeast, and Northwest to contain the flow of irregular migration.”
The Report details that 236 “humanitarian rescue posts” were deployed on the “three lines of containment” (without giving details of their functions) divided into 71 from the National Guard; 27 from the Army; 25 from the Navy, and 113 made up of state police from Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and Campeche.
Being reinforced by 15 rotary wing aircraft and 15 non-intrusive detection equipment.
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The same document details that the Navy is carrying out “maritime containment” in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, as well as “land containment” in the Isthmus area, in addition to the deployment of Reaction Forces in two toll booths and on three highways in Veracruz.
While in Oaxaca he made tours in the municipalities of Juchitan, Ixtepec, Tehuantepec, Salina Cruz, Union Hidalgo and Chahuites.
Regarding these actions, the Government indicated in the report that “actions to inhibit illegal migration are carried out in a rigorous manner, in strict adherence to human rights.”
Analysis
For the doctor Fernando Jimenez Sanchez, Research professor at the Colegio de Jalisco, the containment belts respond to the geography of the country, and while there is a “language trick” when referring to the migrant detentions.
“There is a trick, a background, the State intervenes to ‘rescue’ them from criminal networks (…) it is not that they are rescuing them, it is a play on words to say that they are not arresting them.”
He said that the idea of these barriers is to make passage difficult. illegal towards the border with the United States, in addition to responding to a different policy of migration, to stop them before they reach the center and north of the country with the intention of preventing them from becoming a problem.
“What is done to them? In this first instance, they are detained and sent back (…) in some cases there is this program of stays so that they can be free, but in the southern states, not those in the north. They are allowed to be, they are not persecuted.but they are not allowed to continue north.”
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