Latin American countries will participate today in the final day of the Meeting on Human Mobility on the Northern Route of the Continent, based in Mexico and focusing on issues such as the coordination of actions.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that ministers, deputy ministers and heads of delegation from Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Venezuela and the host nation will attend the meeting, which began the day before.
«In view of the challenges we face in the area of migration, we are meeting in Mexico City to discuss and coordinate actions aimed at: protecting the human rights of migrants; preventing abuse and mistreatment,» said the text.
Also to «manage from a humanitarian approach a regular, safe and orderly migration, as well as to integrate migrant populations; and to strengthen international cooperation to address the migratory phenomenon, from its structural and circumstantial causes, and in its complete cycle».
The meeting took place in a context marked by the arrival in the White House, on 20 January, of US President-elect Donald Trump, who is threatening to carry out mass deportations, despite the proven contributions of migrant communities to that nation.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said yesterday in her usual meeting with journalists that the country has a very elaborate plan in case the announced expulsions materialise. «We already have a very elaborate plan. We are just going to wait for what President Trump is going to announce before we can inform him,» she said in response to a question about support for the state governments in charge of caring for returning migrants.
With the aim of supporting Mexican nationals in the United States, Mexico has taken measures such as strengthening the 53 consulates in that nation and setting up an information and assistance centre via telephone.
Other actions include the implementation of a digital application called the Alert Button, to warn of an arrest, and the strengthening of a programme of external legal counsel with the hiring of hundreds of them.