r/news • u/PlayaSlayaX • 1d ago

Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-app-migrants-deportations-consulates-09655e742f2918803881a32620e384ef
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u/InfiniteVastDarkness 1d ago

Fascinating. The Mexican government doesn’t care that its people can’t be educated or gain employment there, but they care if someone in the US is about to be detained?

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u/Thor4269 1d ago

The alert might allow the Mexican government to request the person be deported into their possession by name

Since it contacts the Mexican consulate automatically as well

As opposed to ending up in detention/labor camps

He said the app would allow users to press a tab that would send an alert notification to previously chosen relatives and the nearest Mexican consulate. De la Fuente described it as a sort of panic button.

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u/lean23_email 15h ago

Sending an alert to ones own consulate should be immediate grounds of asylum invalidation though.

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u/Thor4269 14h ago edited 10h ago

Seeking asylum in the US is going to end a too (according to Trump) so that doesn't really matter

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u/Graywulff 1d ago

I’m worried about the labor camp thing too. I don’t see how they can pick the crops or do construction if they lose that many workers.

So everything shortage and price hikes?

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u/Midget_Stories 13h ago

Listening to Americans talk about this is honestly very strange as an Australian.

Australia is naturally very difficult to illegally migrate to, because of the whole water thing.

Our minimum wage is one of the highest in the world. Until covid hit our food costs were also pretty tiny, we also exported a lot of food.

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u/Organic_Battle_597 6h ago

Higher wages wouldn't appreciably change the retail price of food. The bigger problem is that even at fairly high wages, like 25/hr, legal citizens aren't interested in doing farm labor.

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u/Midget_Stories 3h ago

I think if you gave people a choice of working at McDonald's or being a farmer, people would choose the farm wouldn't they?

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u/Organic_Battle_597 3h ago

McDonalds is *way* easier work. Farm labor is backbreaking.

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u/Zasaran 11h ago

So did prices go down over the last 4 years due to all the new workers? I must have missed that in all the record high inflation.

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u/Graywulff 10h ago

Companies inflated prices to boost profit, not bc of inflation, which came from both presidents spending a lot of money.

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u/CyberneticSaturn 1d ago

You’re getting downvoted but it should be a real concern for everyone if the “mass deportations” actually go through. Construction is pretty unlikely but farming is definitely possible.

The incoming president compulsively lies about everything, though, so honestly it’s just as likely he never leaves the golf course and doesn’t ever actually deport anyone.

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u/VegasKL 10h ago

I'm not sure why you're being down voted. That is the logical next step.

They'll end up creating a log jam with cases waiting to be handled and someone will think "well, we have all the labor .. let's put them to work." Next thing you know they partner with a few corporations to work in particular factories or fields.

We can't act like we don't still operate forced labor prisons in the South. 

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u/Odie_Odie 1d ago

No, it's been in the news for several weeks. Greg Abbot wants them in Texas.

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u/Thor4269 1d ago

When is the inauguration? (note: rhetorical)

That's when it starts

They've literally said as much

Jan 20 if you forgot when Trump becomes president

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u/Thor4269 1d ago edited 1d ago

You mean the cages that Trump kept kids in before giving thousands of kids to American families?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/close-1000-migrant-children-separated-by-trump-yet-be-reunited-with-parents-2023-02-02/

Or do you mean the one they are are building in Texas?

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-border-starr-county-ranch-trump-deportation

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-does-not-rule-out-building-detention-camps-mass-deportations-2024-04-30/

Or are you splitting hairs over detention camps and labor camps? Because I did both to cover my bases since using them for labor is obvious, although I guess I left off "the solution after not being able to deport 10-20 million people in 4 years"

Why would they not choose to profit using the illegals waiting for deportation? That's expensive after all

We do it with our prisoners legally already via the 13th amendment

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u/Absurdll 14h ago

So detention areas that detain and keep people that committed a federal felony and are in this country illegal, now they’re in cages, they’re not in temporary detention for committing a federal felony though.

Also, where’s the labor camps? Still didn’t answer my question.

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u/Pyro919 1d ago

Not new at all.

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u/thedndnut 1d ago

What do you think we do while they're in detention for what could be years. Man sure would be odd if we allowed slavery in the us eh?