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/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.