Immigration Agency Gears Up Support for Anticipated Rise of Deportees From US David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original December 3, 2013

Deportees carrying personal items in boxes provided by U.S. authorities file across the Gateway International Bridge over the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

In a document presented to Mexico's Congress last week, the head of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM), Ardelio Vargas Fosado, said that the agency is working on a plan for a program which would provide support for the thousands of Mexican citizens who live in cities near the U.S. border after being deported from the United States. Vargas Fosado offered little detail on what sort of support the program, named "Somos Mexicanos" ("We Are Mexicans"), might provide, but pointed to the need for his agency to prepare for what they expect to be increased numbers of deportees in the coming year.

Despite an decrease in recent years of the number of Mexicans bound for the United States, Vargas Fosado told lawmakers, the prospect of a possible immigration reform combined with the toughening of border enforcement and increased efforts of U.S. immigration authorities across the country has led Mexican authorities to expect a rise in numbers of deportees. "This year they're going to spike," he wrote in the document, "and we have to be prepared to attend not just to the repatriation of minors, but also the repatriation of adult Mexicans."

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