The governments of Chiapas, Michoacán, Veracruz and Tamaulipas, as well as civil organizations from Morelos and Querétaro, announced that they are preparing to receive Mexican migrants deported by the new US federal administration, headed by President Donald Trump.
Eduardo Ramírez, governor of Chiapas, said that the state is the first place for deportees, “so we are going to receive them with open arms, we are already preparing with the Government Secretariat to provide public transportation to bring them either to the Soconusco region or to the center, which is Tuxtla Gutiérrez.”
He commented that they will take advantage of the qualified labor that the compatriots have in trades such as masonry, carpentry and agricultural production.
The governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, reported that around four million citizens from the state live in the United States and some of them do not have legal residency.
He explained that if there were more deportations, they would basically be at the border, but one option would also be flights to international airports, such as Morelia, where 90 percent of the users are undocumented, not only from Michoacán but also from nearby areas of Guanajuato, Guerrero and the State of Mexico.
In view of the imminent deportations of people from Veracruz, the state administration announced that it is preparing employment and support programs for the countrymen who arrive in the state.
The governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villareal, announced that his government is preparing to receive 15 thousand citizens without residence documents, in the event of a repatriation by the United States authorities; he recalled that this region has historically faced the deportation of foreigners and compatriots.
In Morelos, the general director of attention to migrants, Verónica Giles, explained that among other actions, a shelter will be set up together with the DIF to receive people who arrive in the state and require temporary lodging.
The organization Migrantes Unidos en Caravana A.C. will begin a legal information campaign for the migrant community in the state of Querétaro.
In this context, human rights groups said that days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the governor of Chihuahua, the PAN member María Eugenia Campos insisted that the state is not a sanctuary for people in contexts of human mobility, so possible deportees could not remain in state territory.
They condemned the “clearly violent” operation that agents of the National Migration Institute, riot police from the local Public Security Secretariat and the National Guard, as well as municipal police, carried out in the early hours of January 17.
Edgar H. Clemente, Ernesto Martinez, Ricardo Montoya, Rubicela Morelos, Ivan Sanchez and Martin Sanchez and Cesar Arellano, reporter
Source: jornada
