Faced with the threat of mass deportation by the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, said that in his state they are preparing for what appears to be “a storm warning.”
We don’t know, “perhaps as the days or terms get closer, we will know if this is a hurricane and how severe it is, or not,” he said in an interview upon his arrival at the inauguration of Rocío Nahle as governor of Veracruz.
He indicated that the Tamaulipas border is “very calm, with order in migration. After the CBP programs, we have seven shelters where we receive people who are in transit, giving them their rights.”
- Are you ready to receive the wave of migrants that Trump will send?
- We are preparing. We don’t even know what is going to happen. Right now I’ll just make the comparison that we are in a storm warning.
He said that mainly through Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, 500 people pass through daily on average. “We have approximately 2,500 to 3,000 people in our shelters who are waiting” for their appointment. He said that migrants generally arrive four or five days in advance to guarantee their appointment.
He pointed out that Tamaulipas is one of the most dynamic borders in Mexico; it is the first place of commercial exchange via land (tractor-trailer) and the first place of trade via railroad.
Previously, Governor Samuel García – who arrived at the ceremony in the Congress of Veracruz accompanied by the leader of Movimiento Ciudadano, Dante Delgado – pointed out that the speech given yesterday by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on the relationship between Mexico and the United States was very “measured, very mature, with very concrete data.”
I trust that the relationship between both countries will be good. And he considered, in the face of Trump’s threats, that there will be certainty for businessmen in the country.
Source: jornada
