Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente touched on migration and security in his first official, “very cordial” telephone conversation with the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told journalists on Wednesday.
Work on the border with the USA
Tent camps in Ciudad Juarez, able to accommodate tens of thousands of peopleare to be built within a few days – said Enrique Licon, representative of the city authorities, on Tuesday. He described these works as “unprecedented“.
In total, the Mexican government plans to construct camps and reception centers for migrants in nine cities in the northern part of the country. Authorities will provide migrants with food, temporary shelter, medical care and assistance in obtaining identity documents – results from a government document titled “Mexico embraces you” (ang. The Mexico Embraces You).
There may be 5 million Mexicans in the US without documents
Trump announced the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in U.S. history expelling millions from the country such people. According to the Mexican think tank El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in United States stays without the required documents almost 5 million Mexicans.
Mexican authorities say they are prepared for the possibility of mass deportations, but independent commentators have doubts; they fear that Trump's measures could quickly lead to overload of border cities – Reuters reported.
Taking into account poor economic growth forecasts this year, Mexico may have difficulty absorbing millions of citizens deported from the U.S., and a decline in remittances from Mexicans in the United States could cause “serious economic disruption” in some areas, said retired University of California, San Diego lecturer Wayne Cornelius.