Mexico Prepares Support Programs for Migrants to Be Deported from US Elena Toledo - PanAm Post
go to original December 20, 2016

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Before US President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is preparing a “strategic defense” for Mexican immigrants.

Peña Nieto sent the senate answers to parliamentary questions they had presented in the face of the growing climate of susceptibility caused by Trump’s threats regarding deporting millions of immigrants, which senators called “xenophobic and racist positions that go beyond the US presidential campaign. ”

The Mexican President said that while it is true they have no control over the massive deportations that Trump has announced, “the Mexican government will (respond) with strategic sense and always put the defense of the country’s interests and of Mexicans as a priority. ”

“The Mexican government assumes the defense of the dignity, well-being and rights of Mexicans in the United States as indispensable,” his statement read.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry will begin to negotiate with the Ministries of Labor, Public Education, Finance, Social Development, Agriculture, Economics and Agrarian Development in order to make a comprehensive support program.

This support is intended to include enrollment in Seguro Popular, as well as referral to community centers or addiction care, assistance to victims of abuse or violence, as well as access to a temporary employment program.

Mexican deportees will be supported in terms of education for their children in that they will have access to financial education programs.

There will also be economic support for entrepreneurs and access to loans for housing improvements.

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