translated from Spanish: National Guard to reinforce 12 points on the southern border

Faced with the entry of nearly 400,000 migrants to the national territory in the last three months, the commissioner of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño Yáñez, announced that a special programme will be launched that envisages operations on 12 points of the border to prevent irregular migration, which “cannot continue to be allowed.”
“We are going to establish a regular, orderly and safe migration with human rights and human protection,” said the federal official, who also stated that Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard coordinates the operatives, although the INM is dependent on the Secretariat (Segob).
In an interview with Notimex, he detailed that the operations will be conducted in coordination with the National Guard, the Armed Forces and the governments of the states and municipalities where this problem arises, in addition the Secretariat of the Navy will monitor the territorial limits .
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The programme considers the participation of six thousand 500 elements of the National Guard, who stationed at different points will also monitor mobility on roads which, according to a diagnosis, there is irregular migration.
They will also be vigilant about migrant smuggling in hotels or houses, where they are taken clandestinely, paying three thousand to five thousand dollars, and kept under threats so they don’t say anything.
Immigration agents and elements of the National Guard will ask illegal migrants to return to their nation, as well as their general data to exchange information with their countries of origin and check nationality, as they are also arriving African, Asian and citizens of Saudi Arabia.
Garduño Yáñez established that a land-foot operation of all the elements of the institute and the National Guard will prevent undocumented access of people to national territory, and will also prevent them from continuing to use rafts or boats to move from Suchiate and Usumacinta rivers.
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There will be no more massive and anarchic migrant income, and it is intended to return 2,500 people daily without documents, the INM commissioner said.
Those who are in camps and who voluntarily want to return to their places of origin “we are going to support them and move them to their country; we are not going to leave them at the border, but to accommodate with neighbouring governments.”
Those who wish to stay in Mexico will be given another deal, “we will see what conditions they are in and see if the same law allows them to remain, otherwise they will be deported.”
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Garduño Yáñez said that Mexico will be able to house, with quality of life, between seven and 10 thousand migrants, but insisted that each case will be analyzed in a particular way and is not intended to be supported with housing and work.
“You have to see what your condition is, because there are many Mexicans who would already want such assistance,” a development assistance with scholarships and temporary work has been mentioned, but with control, he said.
The commissioner also commented that cases of immigration agents who have been reported for corruption or stopped in flagrantness are being made available to the relevant authorities.
Garduño Yáñez, who until a few days ago was the director of Reclusorios of the country, categorically rejected that actions to prevent the entry of people without documents will violate human rights and make excessive use of public force.
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“Through my veins runs the education and culture of human rights,” he said, recalling his track record in this area: “I am president of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO),” when the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) was founded”I was the first secretary of human rights.”
“I know the nGO processes, but tell us what to do, tell us if they would allow 50 people to come home.
“I’m talking about the big house, the house of all Mexicans, which is Mexico,” he said.
He also commented that on the Border with the United States, where there are camps, there will be about two thousand elements of the National Guard that will also invite migrants to return to their countries and be provided with mobility assistance.
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Original source in Spanish