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| Mexico's migration system is overwhelmed and undermanned, but by design says official |
| 2022-02-02 |
| It's too hard! [FoxNews] Mexico migration official gives Fox News inside look at border operation. Mexican immigration agents are overwhelmed and undermanned by design, a Mexican migration official told Fox News in an exclusive interview. "I just adapt to my president's decisions," said Nadir Ali Fernandez Villasana, the local representative of the National Migration Institute office in Nogales, Mexico. "But since this new administration took over, the new president in Mexico, it's austerity … austerity in the republic." President Andrés Manuel López Obrador started an austerity policy when he took office in 2018, aiming to combat corruption by reducing government size and government abuses of expenditures. He planned to use the recouped money for future development in the country. Fernandez Villasana said the policy had a direct impact on resources at Mexico’s northern border. The Sonora border district spans 389 miles and has six major ports of entry, including Nogales. Fernandez Villasana’s office, which is responsible for implementing migration policy across four sentry posts in the Nogales area plus 12 additional municipalities, had 40 agents to process people in the district. But under orders from the Obrador administration, that has been reduced to 15. "There’s a pretty big difference between the United States and Mexico," Fernandez Villasana said. "In Mexico, we don’t really consider migration to be illegal," he continued. "In the United States, people who have illegal migratory status are more chased than in Mexico. In Mexico, we try to make the migration orderly, safe. We don’t see it as a crime, like a crime of migration." Fernandez Villasana told Fox News that Mexican citizens deported from the U.S. get food and travel vouchers and are released to find their way home. Immigrants from other countries, like Guatemala and El Salvador, are shipped to a facility farther south to complete the deportation process if they don't have proper paperwork. Because of the reduced workforce due to the austerity policy, Fernandez Villasana said he doesn't always have the staff "to take some illegals to the migratory station who are illegally in the country, and if I don't have a provisional holding place to keep these people, I have to let them go. That's a consequence." |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 LOL yeah right. Try overstaying your visa in Mexico and see how fast they show up on your doorstep. What a joke. |
| Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-02-02 13:42 |
| #1 Mexican immigration agents are overwhelmed and undermanned by design Mexico could shut this down if the right palms were greased and there were proper incentives (cut off their aid). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-02-02 08:24 |